A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.