A golf course is the epitome of all that is 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.
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 always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
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 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.
In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
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.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.
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