Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

Life is short, break the rules.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.