“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”

“There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.”

“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”

“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”

“When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?”

“When the tail of the tadpole drops off, it can live both in water and on land. When the tail of delusive ignorance drops off from man, he becomes free. He can then live in God and the world equally well.”

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ”

“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.”