The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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.
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.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?