In France, there is no winter, no summer, and no morality. Despite all these shortcomings, it is nevertheless a beautiful country.
Water consumed in moderate quantities has yet to harm anyone.
The Minister of War lives so frugally that he managed to accumulate twelve thousand dollars from his salary of eight thousand in one year.
I'm generally against millionaires, but if I were offered to become a millionaire...
Sunday is only once a week, and I regret that. Man is so constituted that you could endure two Sundays. I often think about how simple this would have been and how this opportunity was missed. It cost the almighty Creator nothing to create the world not in six days, but in three - and that's how two Sundays appear in one week! But who am I to criticize the wisdom of the Creator?
Education is everything. The peach used to be a bitter almond, the cauliflower - nothing more than an ordinary cabbage with higher education.
All political parties eventually die suffocated by their own lies.
Everything human is sad. The secret source of humor is not joy, but sadness. There is no humor in heaven.
Always do the right thing. This will please some people and surprise everyone else.
Any parallel is firmly convinced that it can become the equator if its rights are not violated.
Each with his own. St. Francis of Assisi said: "Any saint is capable of performing a miracle, but not everyone is capable of decently managing a hotel."
Heroine: a girl with whom you can live an ideal happy life - in the book.
A year ago I was a virtuous man. And now, when I collided with the morals of New York, I have no more conscience left than that of a millionaire.
Headache should not be underestimated. When it bursts, you feel like you have nothing to gain from it, but on the other hand, when it starts to pass, the unused residue costs four dollars a minute.
After creating the world, God admitted that he was pleased with it. Likewise, I was pleased with my first creation. But time thwarts such hasty conclusions. I suppose now he values his work no more than I value the fools abroad. It is a reality that there is too much water for me and Him.
Sadness is enough on its own, but to get real pleasure from it, you need to share it with others.
Let us live so that even the gravedigger will pity us when we die!
Let's fuck while we still have time, we won't be allowed in heaven.
When a sovereign wants to do good to one person, he unwittingly harms another.
Even the clearest and most circumstantial evidence can ultimately prove to be inaccurate, so we must use it with the utmost caution. As an example, take any pencil sharpened by any woman: when you ask the witnesses, they will say that she did it with a knife, but if you think to judge from the point of view of the pencil, you will say that she chewed it with the teeth.
Even glory can be excessive. Arriving in Rome, at first you are terribly sorry that Michelangelo died, but then you begin to regret that you did not have the pleasure of seeing it yourself.
"Children and fools always tell the truth," says an old wise saying. The bottom line is clear: adults and sages never tell the truth.
Both hands are needed for a kiss.
It must not have been easy for Adam and Eve to have a conversation: they had no one to gossip to.
One child is enough to fill the whole house and yard.
Friendship is a holy, sweet, strong and permanent feeling, as long as you can keep it throughout your life, if, of course, you will not try to borrow money.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket that you could not find even a single crack in it.
The only way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't like, drink what you don't like and do what you don't want to do
If God is as he is believed to be, then he should be the most unhappy in the whole Universe. He watches hour by hour as the multitude of created beings experience unspeakable suffering. He also knows the sufferings to come. Of Him it can be said: "Unhappy as God"
If everyone was rich, then everyone would be poor.