There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

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.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

More childish valorous than manly wise.

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.