Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he Yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, Green the grass-lawn stretched before them While the apple blossoms white Hung in rich profusion o'er them.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

Nothing can work me damage except myself.

being a grandfather doesn't bother me, but sleeping with a grandma certainly does.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.