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