Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

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 things change, the more they stay the same.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

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