When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.