We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset.

Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.

We took our food order to go, in greasy paper bags, and walked across Columbus Circle to Central Park. He helped me up the giant prehistoric-looking rock just off the playground.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

How do you say goodbye to someone who isn't exactly gone.

So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.