"Take your penal apparatus and be off."
And Satan, laying hold of Memory, said: "Come along, you scoundrel; you make happiness wherever you are not."
Self-denial is the weak indulgence of a propensity to forego.
Men talk of selecting a wife; horses of selecting an owner.
You are not permitted to kill a woman that has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine. A wife is a wine bottle.
He gets on best with women who best knows how to get on without them.
"Who am I?" asked an awakened soul.
"That is the only knowledge that is denied to you here," answered a smiling angel. "This is Heaven."
Woman's courage is ignorance of danger; man's is hope of escape.