An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

Choose, but don't want.

A great idea is not enough.