How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.