Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.