Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women...
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argu...
