A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

A lot of newspapers say Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.