Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

He has the most who is content with the least.

There is only a fingers difference between a wise man and a fool.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.