Mother of dead dogs.

Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Remember, your relatives had no choice in the matter either.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.

Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.

All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Remember, sir, my liege, The kings your ancestors, together with The natural bravery of your isle, which stands As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters, With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats But suck them up to th' topmast.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. .