A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.