It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The crown of literature is poetry.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.