“When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day.”

Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with?

A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection.

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Most days, I am the rain. – And that’s okay.

I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.

There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and I still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

I worked at Little Caesar’s for about two days, bro. I was out. That’s the only job I’ve ever had.