Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

Trust, but verify.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.