Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.