I hate all those weathermen who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
There is always a bigger fish.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
Lotto is a tax for stupid people. An extra tax.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.