Necessity, mother of invention.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

I get more spam than anyone I know.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?