Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

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.

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.

If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.