War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.