I always knew what I was doing.
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many beYet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing. . . . If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.