Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

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.

dreamers dream

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

We never cherish what we've got until the day it's gone.

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.