It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.

a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets in the Democratic Party.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too.

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Before you point your fingers be sure your hands are clean.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

The better part of valour is discretion. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.

I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.

All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.