To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.