There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Loving God is an act

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

[God is] everything in the creative force.

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.