Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.
The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.
Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.
In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Dutch painting: daily life is enough.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.
If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.