We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask for we never tell him all and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Tact is good taste in action.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

On the third day God created the beautiful Earth, and on the fourth day his favorite and dearest of all, your gorgeous smile.

His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.