kwotable: part ichi

I find these kwotes to be kwite amusing. I think they may have even inspired me. in fakt, this will be the first in a series of kwote posts. Let's play a game. "Name that Author". Kinda lame for a game title, but u get the idea. Whose words are these? (Also, please post a komment to tell me which of these kwotes you like best.)

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "

"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. "

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. "

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "

"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. "