You’d be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
What is a historian? Someone who doesn’t write well enough to work on a daily.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
An idea’s birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.