“Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.”

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.

Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

Friendship demands attention.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.

You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.

It’s just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.