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

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.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.