Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

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.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

To snatch the worm from the trap.

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.