“Half the world does not know how the other half lives.”

Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.

Don’t limp in front of the lame.

I build only living stones–men.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Giving words is an act of lovers.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.