One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent, ' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles.

His tongue felt good, it tasted good, it was all just good. Not just good. It was better than good. I missed this. I loved kissing and, Lord, did I miss it.

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.

The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren't.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.