A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is getting that release.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.