I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Never confuse activity with action.
I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts — Heaven, bless the merry child! He's father's self in face and limb, And father's heart is strong in him. Shout, baby, shout! and clap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands.
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.