A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

Focus your intuitive thoughts to identify what is truly worth pursuing.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.