A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.

Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle bad is when they steal mine.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...