It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.