Quote Tag

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Paris Hilton, that’s very interesting what she did. I’ve never done that. I haven’t really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don’t have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I regret all of my books.

To be in prison so long, it’s difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.