What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.