Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
The impotence of God is infinite.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
Change is the essence of life.
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
The more you say, the less they remember.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
Intelligent women always marry fools.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.