Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate that's my philosophy.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who' ...

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.