Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.