A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
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.
There is always a bigger fish.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
A good breakfast can save the day.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
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.
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.
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.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
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.
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
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.