If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.