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To take the world as one finds it
There are no roads in all Bohemia !
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.
Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.
Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"
No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.
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.
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
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.
Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!
My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.
A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
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.
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
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 game's the thing.
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.