Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Fantastic shadows of birds
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.