The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
All mankind love a lover.
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
A hedge between keeps friendships green.
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.