Quotes and aphorisms from people. Page 5494

Revolutions never lightened the burden of tyranny, but merely shifted it to other shoulders.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But sometimes Providence directs the court drunken skippers on the rocks.

I don't like to feel at home when I am abroad.

Better never than late.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the layman.

Development - the process is subconscious, which immediately stops when you start to think.

A reasonable man adapts to the world; the unreasonable tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, the progress always depends on the unreasonable.

Suppose that the world is only one of the jokes of the Lord God. Do not therefore it is not necessary to turn it from a bad joke good?

The rain with persistence, the mind is not understandable, and the air is so riddled with damp that the roof over your head is just a tribute to human conventions.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything: he is destined to be a politician.

Perfect love is possible only by correspondence.

I became a writer because the author rarely meets her clients and not have to dress decently.

Patriotism: the conviction that your country is better than others because you are born in it.

If the man decided to kill the tiger, it's called sport; but if the tiger decided to kill the man, it's called bloodlust.