Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

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.

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.