I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
It is very easy to love alone.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
We are always the same age inside.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Romance is everything.
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
History takes time. History makes memory.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.