They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

I’d heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn’t think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to control the game, then you become one of the pieces that are meant to be sacrificed.

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.