The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The earth laughs in flowers.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

A right delayed is a right denied.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

We are so very ‚umble.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

I’m crepuscular.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.