The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
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The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
A burnt child loves the fire.
Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Health is the first duty in life.
We never have more illusions than when we try to act.