You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Love • Relationships
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Happiness • Life • Love
True friends stab you in the front.
Authenticity • Betrayal • Friendship
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Devotion • Marriage
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Deception • Marriage • Relationships
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Confusion • Humor • Intelligence
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Family • Food • Forgiveness
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Morality • Popularity • Society
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Attention • Criticism • Fame
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Enemies • Forgiveness
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Experience • Humility • Learning
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Art • Beauty • Nature
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Family • Forgiveness • Parenting
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Existence • Human • Life
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Humor • Life
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Friendship • Humor • Relationships
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
Freedom • Happiness • Nature
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Beauty • Existence • Tragedy
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art • Creativity
Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Disappointment • Expectations • Marriage
