If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.