The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.