Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Playing the victim is like surrendering to self-imprisonment.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.