Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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.

Losers are not necessary in this world.

I'm pretty sure those're my balls you've found, ” I said to the man searching my pants. “You gonna count 'em out now? Because I'll save you the trouble. There's two.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

I love the Lord with my life and through that love, I walk the walk, I don't just talk the talk.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.