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Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!
Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves the spring must also love its reason!
A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.
I would want to know that my daughter is going to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life.
No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.
Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.
I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.
Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.
I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.
It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.
A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.