An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.