It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

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.

Listen to your heart, it will guide you on the right path.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Never seek illicit wealth.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.