In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .