Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.