I'm glad I was not born before tea.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

I will make you shorter by the head.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

Well, the handwriting is on the floor.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

Think sideways!

I stick my neck out for nobody.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Many enraged psychiatrists are inciting a weary butcher. The butcher is weary and tired because he has cut meat and steak and lamb for hours and weeks. He does not desire to chant about anything with raving psychiatrists, but he sings about his gin

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played for SEVEN hours. Great song.

I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top.

Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Scratch the average female and you'll find a purring bundle... at the ready to love and honor, bake a torte and still produce quintuplets.

Would it help if I got out and pushed?

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich."

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

"Plaese porrf raed."

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native word "lies".

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.