Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.