Few people know how to be old.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

When you’re under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer’s

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

I try to see only the good in him

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Stress is the spice of life.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.