Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

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

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.