How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Quote by Richard Burton

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me...

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me...

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds;...

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds;...

If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.

If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the...

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the...

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything...

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything...

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby...

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby...

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship...

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship...

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to...

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to...

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that...

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that...

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for...

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for...

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than...

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than...

A Women who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.

A Women who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant...

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant...