Celebrity Quotes

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.