A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Edward: Bella, please stop taking your clothes off! Bella: Why? Did you wanna do that part?

There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.