Tomorrow is an old thief who will always know how to accompany us.
Asking questions is a bad habit in a conversation between two gentlemen.
Law is the ultimate manifestation of human wisdom, which uses human experience for the benefit of society.
He who knows how to pay attention knows how to remember.
Difficulty is often the child of the rose.
A fascinating story is rarely entirely true.
Knowledge is of two kinds. Either we know the subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.
Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what the strength of the material is to the architect.
Of all types of noise, music is the least unpleasant.
The Irish are honest people: they do not speak well of each other.
The art of aphorism consists not so much in expressing an original or profound idea, as in the ability to express, in a few words, an accessible and useful idea.
The truth is like a cow that does not give milk to the skeptics, but offers them the alternative of milking the bulls.
The true cost of aid is always directly dependent on how that aid is given.
The satisfaction of a praise is real when it repeats aloud what pride whispers in our ear...
Any author can expect to be praised, but the biographer can only hope to avoid being scolded.
Each of us is lazy or hopes to become.
Every person has the right to say what he believes to be true and every other person has the right to contradict him. Martyrdom - here is the criterion.
As fast as time flies, it moves very slowly to someone who is just watching the movement.
Mutual dislike is usually a direct consequence of glimpsed sympathy.
As a rule, the man likes to see the dinner table more than to listen to the wife speak Greek.
Castration is the removal of obscene parts from the book.
Slander is the revenge of cowards.
When two Englishmen meet, they start discussing the weather.
When I am flattered by the one whom everyone flatters, I am truly happy.
When a man says that the woman gave him pleasure, he does not mean a conversation.
When a man who was very unhappy in his marriage remarries immediately after his wife's death, it is the triumph of hope over experience.
When a butcher says his heart bleeds for his country, he knows what he's talking about.
When a person knows that in two weeks he will be hanged, he has a remarkable ability to concentrate his thoughts.
Red wine is a drink for boys, and port wine for men; he who wants to be a hero must drink brandy.
Beauty without kindness dies unclaimed.