If all people thought the same, then no one would play racing.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always coincided which of us would avoid the gallows?
If the serpent had been forbidden, then Adam would have eaten it too.
If he had stained his pants with multiple colors, he wouldn't have lied to you about it, but he would have made it look like he got stained by rolling off the rainbow anyway.
If Christ had come now and here, he would not have been a Christian at all.
If man had created man, he would have been ashamed of his work.
If you rush to make the Universe or a house, you will almost certainly realize later that you forgot to make a small recess or a broom closet.
If you don't like New England weather, wait a few minutes.
If you want to give a young man a terrible and torturous punishment, tell him to promise to keep a diary for a year.
If someone has offended you and you have doubts about whether they did it on purpose or not, do not resort to extreme measures; but simply wait for the right moment and hit your aggressor with a brick. This will be enough. If it turns out that he didn't mean to offend you, be generous, tell him you were wrong, admit your mistake like a man should, explain to him that you didn't mean to do this. Yes, always avoid violence.
If you've noticed that you're on the side of the majority, it's a clear sign that it's time to change your mind.
If a man says that he is the boss in the house, it means that he is lying in other cases as well.
If we are not respected, we get very angry; although, deep down, no one really respects themselves.
If you take a hungry dog and feed it, it won't bite you. This is the fundamental difference between dog and man.
If you need money, go to strangers; if you need advice, go to friends; and if you don't need anything, go to your relatives.
If you are angry, count to four; if you are very angry, swear.
If a German writer sinks into a phrase, you won't see him again until he comes out on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean with the word in his mouth.
If a man thinks differently than we do, then we call him weird, and that's the end of the discussion. I think it only happens that way because nowadays we can't burn it anymore.
If a man is not a coward he can single-handedly rob a whole train of passengers, and if he is only half a coward, then he can stop a train of passengers and rob them all.
There are people who are capable of every noble and heroic deed, but cannot resist the temptation to tell their happiness to an unfortunate.
There are some legislatures that sell for the highest prices in the world.
There are many ways to deal with temptation; the surest of these is cowardice.
There is an old toast remarkable for its beauty: "May when you reach the pinnacle of success no friend stands in your way."
There are born squeamish people who see only change for the worse. I once knew an old black woman. A young man from New York said to her face, "What a wonderful month you are having here." She sighed and said, "Ah, my dear, God bless you, to have looked at this moon before the war!"
If I had lived at the beginning of the world, before condemning Cain, I would have first listened to what the neighbors had to say about the killing of Abel.
The labor law is very unfair, but that is how it is made and it is not possible to change it: the more the worker enjoys working, the more money he receives for his work.
A vow of abstinence can't make a bad whiskey better, but it can make it taste better.
The stars are not as close to each other as they seem.
Of all God's creatures there is only one you cannot force to obey - the cat. If man could cross with the cat, the human race would be improved, but the cat would be harmed.
From the bones of Saint Dionysius that I have seen in Europe, I believe that, if necessary, his skeleton could be reconstructed in two copies.