Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A thief believes everybody steals.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.