To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

A boy is a creature of odd feelings.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.