A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. |
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality. |
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. |
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. |
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. |
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. |
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. |
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. |
An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. |
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time |
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. |
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? |
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow |
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. |
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. |