“Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.”

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

The best way to write poetry, letting things come.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Tigers don’t like honey.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women’s superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.

A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

Intellect-brain force.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

I’ve always been attracted to guys with big brains.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.