Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

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.

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

In the future, I want to have children.

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

When God says something, the argument is over.

He who is good is happy.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.