Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else