A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Comedians are not usually actors but imitations of actors.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

Animals are not property or things but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

I call it 'the Etch A Sketch life.' Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Rock and roll keeps you in a constant state of juvenile delinquency.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.