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.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

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.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

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

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