Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show; Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen; But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.

Beauty is quite different from charm, beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is when a woman notices you.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.

Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh .

You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.