As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
How, frequently, some murder’d man appear’d, To tell his wife and children who had done it...
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
Because, as we are told – a sad old joke, too – Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
The highest duty is to respect authority.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton.
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
There’s one word that describes baseball – You never know.
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
A silly row which got out of hand.