You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
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.
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.
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 thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
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.
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.
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.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
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.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
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.
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.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.