To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

She who boasts of lovers soon has none.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.

Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.

A beautiful woman delights the eye a wise woman the understanding a pure one the soul.

Enthusiasms like stimulants are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion the other by it.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

Boston has opened and kept open more turnpikes that lead straight to free thought and free speech and free deeds than any other city of live or dead men.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

My son works as a production assistant in television.

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Fashion is instant language.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

He who wished to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

I love corduroy jeans as well as vertical-striped jeans. Both are a fun switch from plain old denim. They can be slimming so long as the stripes aren't too chunky.

Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.