A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

All the answers you seek in life. It is hidden a book.

The course you take determines your greatness or failure

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'

A white wall is the paper of a foole.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'