When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
When you name yourself, you always name another.
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
Right is its own defense.
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Eats first, morals after.
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!