"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."

"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews."

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."

"Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ."

"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason."

"Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."

"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"

"God will forgive me. It's his job."

"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

"Atheism is the last word of theism."

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

"When words leave off, music begins."

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."

"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."

"Woman is at once apple and serpent."

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."

"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."

"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."

"Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned."

"I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."

"The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

"God will forgive me; that's his business."

"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle."

"Oh, what lies there are in kisses."