You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
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.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
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.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
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.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.