Humor e Ironia

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

I’d like to live as a poor man, with lots of money.

A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.