Who said “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”?

“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!”

“Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.”

“I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

“He who sings, frightens away all his ills.”

“If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.”

“My life is a battle.”

“Men argue, nature acts.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“A witty saying proves nothing.”

“The best is the enemy of the good.”