For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Be just before you are generous.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you do or dont do.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked What are they doing The answer was Swapping lies.

Shes as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales coiners of scandal and clippers of reputation.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!