Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.