The war won't ever be over... too damn profitable, do you get me? Back home they're coining money, the British are coining money; ...even the French, look at Bordeaux and Toulouse and Marseilles coining money and the goddam politicians, all of 'em got bank accounts in Amsterdam or Barcelona, the sons of bitches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I heard a good one at Toulouse of a woman who had passed through the hands of some soldiers: "God be praised," she said, "that at ...least once in my life I have had my fill without sin!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not... set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himself ...be raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the mo...st arrogant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness t...hat it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammati...cal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I... always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »