Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

We learn from the things we suffer.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.