Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on, 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on, Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

There are three billion women who don't look like super models and ONLY eight who do.

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.

Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius.

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows; But like of each thing that in season grows.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Life just gives you time & space; it's up to you to fill it.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

The journey is the reward.

My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.