Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

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.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.