Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she’s gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay.
There’s no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They’re the most decadent people.
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he’s happy to continue to do what he’s been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at ’em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y’know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today.
A man’s enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.