Force,
and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
War is the great scavenger of thought.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized
society.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a
soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard
before starting a war.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of
fortune as war.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of
politics by other means.
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a
man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy
him.
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very
difficult, you know.
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what
can be gained by giving in. You will be living off
stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own
acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good
consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it. I
dream, therefore I exist.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never
forgives the dreamer.
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be
screwed too tight.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
The shortest answer is doing.
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath
should be thrown away.
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
A country can be judged by the quality of its
proverbs.
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Translators, traitors.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he
deceives me twice, shame on me.
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but
the view is always the same.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your
friend's forehead.
Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is
best.
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole
mountain.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house
on it.
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better
to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of
all.
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
The course of true love never did run smooth. |
