Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

—Horace Walpole

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

—Horace Walpole

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

—Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

—Horace Walpole

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"—because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

—Jackie Kennedy

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

—Mary Wortley Montagu

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

—Gian Vincenzo Gravina