I never invite idiots to my house.

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

They say you don't invite the wolf into the hen house. But Joe isn't afraid of the wolf or anything else. He knows who he is.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants