All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

Elvis and I call up Cadillac dealerships all night long, suckin' down Ny Quil stingers and cheese. He says, what the hell's Lisa Marie thinking with that Michael Jackson crap?

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

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If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.