A German woman from Munich told me that you can't love Wagner from the first moment, you have to learn to love him systematically.
One of the main differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat only has nine lives.
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that millions have believed in it; likewise, those millions of people thought the earth was flat.
October is one of the most dangerous months of the year for stock market games. The other dangerous months: July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
He could foretell wars and famines; this not being too difficult: there is always a war going on somewhere and someone is always starving somewhere.
An offensive truth is no more than an offensive lie.
Acuity is the unexpected marriage of two ideas that did not know each other before the wedding.
Stock exchange speculations must be avoided in two cases: when we have no money and when we have it.
A very good way to spoil relations with a man is to say, "No, that's not how this anecdote goes." Then say it your way.
Very few sinners were saved after the first twenty minutes of preaching.
Switching to a sober lifestyle, you suddenly notice that you are drunk just by smelling the vodka corks.
Regarding adjectives: when in doubt, exclude them.
An original improvisation is always worse and more erased than the one prepared ahead of time.
The English language knowledge of the guides is enough to make an explanation something completely incomprehensible.
Half the consequences of good intentions are bad. Half the consequences of bad intentions are good.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have; let's use it carefully
The truth is more unusual than a fiction, because the fiction is obliged to keep within the bounds of verisimilitude, and the truth, not.
Rules of Conduct in Dogfights: Let your secret compassion be on the side of the weak - that's called generosity, but to bet on the strongest - that's called business.
The aphorism has the right proportions: minimum sounds, maximum meanings.
The government of my country despises frank honesty, but instead encourages artistic extortion, and I feel that I might have made a very gifted pickpocket if I had worked in the public service for a year or two.
The right to stupidity is one of the guarantees of free personality development.
First of all, facts are needed; after all, they can be mystified.
A habit is a habit, you can't throw it out the window, you can just kick it out the stairs, politely, step by step.
Predicting is very difficult especially when it comes to the future.
Work is that thing which people are obliged to do, and play is that thing which they are not obliged to do. That's why making artificial flowers or carrying water to a sieve is work, and hitting poplars or climbing Mont Blanc is fun.
By working on ourselves, we learn not to give importance to unpleasantness. Of course, to others.
Fate knocks at every man's door once in his life, and at this time the man often sits in the nearest tavern and hears no knock.
The most miserable thing in the world is the crowd; here, for example, the army - a lot; they go to battle not because courage has awakened in them, but they have courage because there are many and they are ordered.
A self-taught person rarely knows anything right, and usually ten times less than he would have learned from a teacher.
The most opportune time to start an article comes when you have finished writing it successfully. At this point it is clear to you exactly what you want to say.