You know what they tell you to do when you’re assessing the value of your hand? If you’re defending – count the winners – but if you’re attacking count the losers.
Two people rarely see the same thing.
A mirror shows the truth, but everyone stands in a different place for looking into the mirror.
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!
The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.
Sometimes one sees things more clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.
Some people, when they come into money, seem to attach undue importance to it.
Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad – deliciously mad – perverted – slightly twisted – then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is? A sport!
It is not the past that matters but the future.
I believe the present matters – not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms – a false perspective.
