Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.