The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.