Quotes 21 till 40 of 426.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises.
Original:Der Brief ist ein unangemeldeter Besuch, der Briefträger der Vermittler unhöflicher Überfälle.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
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