Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.