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“Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.”

“Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.”

“Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.”

“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”

“What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes”

“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”

“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”

“You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;But yet you draw not iron, for my heartIs true as steel: leave you your power to draw,And I shall have no power to follow you.”

“Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”

“Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.”

“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.”

“Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?”

“I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.”

“Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.”

“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”

“Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'”

“What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?”

“Take you me for a sponge?”

“Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!”

“Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.”

“Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.”

“It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.”

“When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'”

“We don't even know who's in the Academy.”

“Haply a woman's voice may do some goodWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on.”

“The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”

“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.”

“What is the city but the people?”

“The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.”

“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner”

“If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.”

“A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.”

“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”

“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”

“I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.”

“Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.”

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

“thus with a kiss I die”

“Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.”

“I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

“Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.”

“Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!”

“You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.”