Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

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.

People have a tendency to shrink the boundaries of complex problems to fit into their back pocket and then, sure enough, grumble that their problems follow wherever they go.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.