What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of...

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not...

I’m listening.

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man’s hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

2 out of 4 numbers prefer being in the bottom 50 percent. Half of all lovers also prefer being on the bottom.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Heaven forbid that I should regard the limitation of my sympathy as anything save a red light which warns me not to criticize at all.

Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell of superstition and in ignorance. He could not understand why people would not accept...

Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,Et c’est n’estimer rien qu’estimer tout le monde.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who,...

There are some who want to get married and others who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

I don’t have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there’s something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds...

Some men eat dinner with silverware. Some use chopsticks. I prefer zippers.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It’s what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce’s question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother’s or his father’s side]A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape...

How to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education.If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter,...

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

Noon yellow is needed to combat my inner albino. But I prefer spreading my shadow thin like mayonnaise. Ours is a nighttime love.

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to...

All tastes are expressions of belief.

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!