I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary. "
Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. . . . Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.