Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

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

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.

In the end she just said..... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.