At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.