Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. – Lord Chesterfield
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. – Lord Chesterfield
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm