I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.

Of course she no longer excites him. She no longer works overtime to maintain a dumpster fire.

You can never complain your way to a fulfilling life.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.