I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.