Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

I was recently voted best standup never to win a major.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.

You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.