The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
There is always a bigger fish.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.
If you absolutely don’t have time to make your own mayonnaise, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is the only store-bought mayonnaise that will do.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
A good breakfast can save the day.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.