 Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. |
| When words leave off, music begins. |
| Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. |
| I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. |
| The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. |
| Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned. |
| Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. |
| I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. |
| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. |
| Ask me not what I have, but what I am. |
| Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. |
| Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. |
| It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? |
| It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. |
| Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. |
| You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. |
| God will forgive me; that's his business. |
| When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. |
| Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. |
| If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. |
