“How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!”

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

We are easily duped by those we love.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.

It don’t matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.

It’s not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

How childish to think that could be easy.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.

King Crimson is never easy; it’s challenging. That’s why I like it.