There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Temptation to behave is terrible.
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
Only bad generals need heroes.
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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