It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Man flieht nicht, weil man Angst hat, sondern man hat Angst, weil man flieht.
The nail supports the hoof, the hoof the horse, the horse the man, the man the world.
The wise man will be cheated only once.
The poor looks for food and the rich man for appetite.
What does the blind man know of the beauty of the tulip?
For every wise man there is one still wiser.
A learned man has always wealth in himself.
After all, every man is the son of a woman.
What the poor man says is not listened to.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
The rich man doesn't pay, the debtor does.
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution —it is called pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man? Two different things wanted the true man: danger and diversion...
[Unser Leben] ist unüberwindlich verworren nur dann, wen man an sich denkt; aber in dem Augenblick, wo man nicht an sich denkt, sondern sich fragt, wie man einem anderen helfen könne, ist es sehr einfach.
