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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
You can always do something that can make you feel good about your life despite what you're going through.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.
Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.
In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.
The good news is that 'High School Musical' seems to be getting a lot of youngsters excited about theater.
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.
I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.
It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.
It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.
I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.