Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.

There are many intelligent beings in the Universe. Most of them are owned by cats.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

God pays but not weekly wages.

The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.

The woman cries before the wedding the man afterward.

When I had money everyone called me brother.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Spring is a virgin Summer a mother Autumn a widow and Winter a stepmother.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The beauty of the soul

A blissfully united family shines much brighter than most of life's greatest blessings.

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

Dada is a state of mind.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Ideas are incestuous.

I got married really fast and really young.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.