If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.