A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.