Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.
The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.
Beggars market their incapacity.
I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
To make a thought my own, I must think it often.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.
Regret leads to overeating and naps.
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.
Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.
Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
