Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

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.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb!

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.