It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.