Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Some people feel like you have to cement your love.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.