"There are some women whose pregnancy would..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.”

“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”

“A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.”

“The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.”

“I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.”

“A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.”

“Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.”

“It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.”