Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.