Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress..

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress..

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter..

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway..

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter..

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead..

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths..

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one..

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy..

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade..

Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of tri….

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the g….

Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou s….

Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire….

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge..

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; fir….

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero.

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto..

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will..

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life..