Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

Reading maketh a full man.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

This world's a bubble.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

We have to start listening to nature now.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new