Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':

You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them