A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
From Jean Giraudoux
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
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