When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Mankind will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

It's never too early for a cocktail.

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.