Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Don’t wait for big opportunities. You can create small but wonderful ones by starting with what you have.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

The customer’s always right.

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.