God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream.
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein. . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters. . .
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
O how beautiful is morning! How the sunbeams strike the daisies And the kingcups fill the meadow Like a golden-shielded army Marching to the uplands fair.
I just made a movie. There's a kind of a banter that some people might recognize as being screwball. There are no cell phones, no DVD playersit's set in a timeless Brooklyn. Hopefully, it's a good, old-fashioned movie.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.