Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Better never than late.
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
It's a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seems to get younger and younger.
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.