Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
Few people love with the violence they hate.
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.
I could not ignore their withering glances. They looked at me the way real vampires look at Count Chocula.
The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
Women are attracted to funny men, it is often said. This is not true. It only appears this way because women laugh at everything a very handsome man says. So this gives the very handsome men the idea that they are funny.
As long as the red dice are in the air, the gambler has hope. And hope is a wonderful thing to be addicted to.
The plain truth is that Adam Eget is an alcoholic and that’s why he doesn’t drink. Me, I’m not an alcoholic and that’s why I do drink. Life sure is funny that way.
Earlier this week, Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live, among them that “Hollywood is run by Jews.” The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that Brando is now free to work again.
She said she could no longer live in New York, that she was being tormented day and night by some obsessive stalker. This caught me completely by surprise, as I had taken to hanging around Sarah’s apartment, hiding in the bushes day and night, watching her come and go, and I had never seen any signs of a stalker.
That’s where I found him, making a living underneath the Queensboro Bridge, jerking off punks for fifteen dollars a man.
I’ll admit that I’m deeply closeted, but I’ll never admit that I’m gay.