But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

When the rubber hits the road... (meaning: when it comes down to it).

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

Grandparents: the people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.