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The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.'

What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

I never gossip, but I can give you the names of certain people who do.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

Age 49. — A man's physical prime is between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the prime time for his soul and capacity for thought is around forty-nine.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.