Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.