Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

Wot prawce Selvytion nah?

Stay alert, stay alive.

I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.

The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his own country;--seldom since that day Has Spain had heroes.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

There were miracles long before Christianity.