If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.