To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

The mentality of seeking miracles from one place to another is destructive to the economy

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.