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

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.