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

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will not stay, We'll add night to the day, Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.

It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other.

Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

see you later, alligator.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

Good, better, best. Never rest Until good be better And better best.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.

At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?