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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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

Nothing can come of nothing.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

What is past is prologue.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

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

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

I bear a charmed life.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

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

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

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

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.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

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

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

Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

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

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

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

Language is wine upon the lips.

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

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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