Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

...I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

How southern belle of her.

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

I'm not a feminist at all.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.