Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

No matter how many times you get sunk in life, but there have been always a new hope and opportunity to rise.

Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives.

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The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.

The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.