Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.