Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

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.

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Together we can take this world, and all those whose knees have never felt the sting of the earth will bow to us

Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves.

Awww, that's sweet. Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a well-made implement of pain.

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.