The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

nose around (snoop).

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up the balloon. If you blow too hard and too fast, the balloon pops and likewise the relationship breaks. But if you take things slowly and let the balloon of love stretch on its own, it grows into a huge, prosperous balloon, full of love. Also, if you don't push the relationship at all, or at least hold it at the same level it was at, the air will flow out of the balloon, deflating it, and your love will shrivel up and become flat & lifeless. So when you are in love, push the relationship forward slowly and gently and the balloon will grow comfortably into a strong, immense love.

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.

I live an idle burden to the ground.