No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

H. L. Mencken

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Einstein

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Robert Burton

Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D Eisenhower

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

It's never too late to be who you might have been.

George Eliot

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Wally Lamb

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

J. D. Salinger

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Mark Twain