Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.