He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

There's nothing I'd really rather do, or can do, except cook.

call out if you need a hand. if she looks like she's going to have you, i'll sneak up behind her and whach her on the head with a stiff rabbit

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Work? It’s just serious play.

Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton