If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Observation is a dying art.

A woman’s smile will always make a good man’s day.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.