The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.