Even women are perfect at the outset.

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.

The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.