“Is idleness indeed so black a crime?What are the Busy doing, half their time?”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.”

“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”

“Haste is from the Devil.”

“The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”