There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.