Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.John F. Kennedy