“There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.”

Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

There shouldn’t be any violence in hip-hop. You’re getting free clothes. Basically, it’s free money.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I’ve always been a size 14 to 16, I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

More clothes mean more time doing laundry.  

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.