Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling school, I think one of the courses should be laughing, then jumping off something.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd.

Alimony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

If this is living, I'd rather be dead.

In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds which blow From the desolate shores of doubt.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.