Shayne Mcclendon

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.