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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.