When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.