If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Bread milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling and break forth into other beauty besides they are her laughs.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries fire.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.