The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

Even the most beautiful legs end somewhere.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.