The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Mine is better than ours.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

The brain is wider than the sky.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.