I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
