There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.