I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there a danger of their coming true

It is the dread of something happening something unknown and dreadful that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true

There are two things to aim at in life first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

I am dying of hunger.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.