There isn't any way to libel the human race.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!