As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

There's someone in my head but it's not me.

Do it, dump it, or change it.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell. She said: "The daisy but deceives; 'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,' One story no two daisies tell." Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves Under the daisy's mocking spell.