Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Losers must have leave to speak.

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

The happy have whole days.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.