Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

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.

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.