I get asked 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Women can't live with them can't live without them.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to...
Humility is truth.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask...
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Nature more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways has sown a seed...
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is...
Time takes away the grief of men.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen...
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
It is wisdom in prosperity when all is as thou wouldn't have it to fear and...
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Your library is your paradise.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and...
The desire to write grows with writing.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man...
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of...
