Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

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.

Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called."On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed, " came the response.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals