Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Even jellyfish have a life. So, what's your excuse?

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

College was the greatest four years of my life.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

I don't want to hear any drama [about me]. I don't want any negativity. I don't want to hear what's on the blog. I don't care what others say about me.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.