A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. |
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal |
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal |
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. |
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. |
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood |
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. |
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am |
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. |
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. |
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. |
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? |
Not through discovery but through our fathomlessness do we move confidently through life. |
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. |
Only the mediocre are always at their best. |