Life is too short to be taken seriously.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!