By putting his hand around my neck he slowly strangled himself.

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.

There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live o...

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.