We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.