We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

I regularly buy and sell cars, but I do not buy and sell fleets.

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.