The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation

For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.