One may outwit another, but not all the others.

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.

I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, " Petra said.

Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.