How many fools does it take to make up a public?

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but...

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

All that I’ve learned, I’ve forgotten. The little that I still know, I’ve guessed.

Men whose only concern is other people’s opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of...

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don’t.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in...

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.