"This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man."

"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."

"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?"

"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life."

"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it."

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."

"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."

"There鈥檚 so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."