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My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
I work hard. I like getting to the end of things. And I write my plays that way.
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.
Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.
I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.