In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "why.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

One Sallow does not make Summer.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.