Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.

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Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.