Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

Not every ROAD we come across in our daily life is one we have to take. Sometimes just standing still and being, can BE the best move we ever make.

MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?ME: MATH.

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.