The sluggard is a living insensible.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.