Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Injections ... are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking [...] the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"--cannot hear the music of the spheres.
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything.
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
You'll catch a liar before you'll catch a cripple.
Perfection is a road, not a destination.
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee.
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
