78 quotes found
Journalist · American
American journalist
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.”
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”
“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.”
“A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”
“What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.”
“If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.”
“It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.”
“We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”
“For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.”
“In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.”
“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
