A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.