Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.