A better idea than my own is to listen.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.