Quotes
My daddy always said that a man who walks around with a smile on his face all the time can't possibly know what's going on.
Minor surgery is surgery that someone else is having
I am mad with joy.--At least I think it's joy.
I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
I tell you, sir, that the end of the world has come. No one has ever beheld such outbreaks among the students! It is the accursed inventions of this century that are ruining everything, —artilleries, bombards, and, above all, printing, that other German pest. No more manuscripts, no more books! Printing will kill bookselling. It is the end of the world that is drawing nigh.
There’s no animal in the world with a deeper sense of parody than a horse. A cat can make you look clumsy and a dog can make you look stupid, but only a horse can make you look both at the same time. And then, with nothing more than the flick of a tail or a casual stomp on your foot, it lets you know that it did in on purpose.
The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.
A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there is no river.
“In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss. Very Swiss. Strictly Neutral.” - Didier
There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterwards. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.
Anything that can be put in a nutshell should remain there.
If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you don't get the joke.
