Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you either happy or miserable

Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.

Avoid letting daily cares override your heart-felt intuition.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.