Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

The secret of success is sincerity.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

Im not afraid of death. Its the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I love to smile.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.