Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.