 Total absence of humor renders life impossible. |
| One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. Topics: Age |
| If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles. |
| A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. |
| Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. |
| There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. |
| The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. |
| I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. |
| Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. |
| What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. |
| Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. |
| Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. |
| The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. |
| It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. Topics: Children |
| Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. |
| I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. |
| In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. |
| Be happy. It's one way of being wise. |
