He who hath many friends hath none.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

We are wiser than we know.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Information is not knowledge.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.