Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
Oh, to know God's private address.
Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.
To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.
The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Politics: a Trojan horse race.
There are parodies of non-existent things.
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
All Gods were immortal.
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
Do not make gods in your own images.
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
Do I believe? God only knows.
How many prison years in the years since Christ!
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
The first condition of immortality is death.
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
The exit is usually where the entrance was.
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.
Powerless rage can work miracles.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
Illiterates have to dictate.
Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
Pants get shiny even on a throne.
Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.
One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
He who limps is still walking.
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
