The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

It never rains but it pours.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.