These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

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.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.-General Wedge Antilles

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

When you're strong and good, then you're Bad.

Unavailable wars are always just.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.