• Success on success – blindness. • The circle you belong to is the coop you’ll end up in. • Understand the solitude of those who live within you and you’ll be a human being. • I can’t be touched – least of all by those who can’t hurt me. • There’s nowhere we can reach as long as we all want to be in the same place. • Feel good in your own skin, under it the years decide. • Don’t be forever shooting at me, some of your bullets are blanks. • Everyone dreams their own life’s dream, reality is life beyond the grave. • Tread somewhere else, the truth lies beneath your feet. • Step by step, foot by foot. • Depending on myself, I depend on others. • Men went to Mars. The Martians said, ‘What robots! • Men live penned in prison, animals at liberty in zoos. • History repeats itself, its authors the victors. • Work like a slave, think like a thinker – even if you’re a slave. • Nothing at once, everything in the meantime. • Change your tense. Use the future if things don’t go right in the present. • You’re the same as your neighbour, but the converse could also be said. • Humanise the success that means everything in life. • To read that you know better than I do, I’d have to be literate. • Advert: Wanted – a parasite that gives blood willingly. • We’ll be equal before the law when the judges are too. • One page of love, several novels of life. • We’ll become what we are. • Destiny decides on friendship, man on enmity. • The ultimate end of the end is to reach itself. • Africa is black, Europe is white unless it sunbathes. • Don’t root for me too loud, they’ll think I paid you more than the others. • Be patient, nobody’s waiting for you. • I’m looking for a woman I can read at once while she translates me lifelong. • You want to meet the author? Read his text, he’s in it. • Man wants to become immortal, surely that means the death of the planet? • Either you run with the times or they trample on you. • Since we understood each other at once, we have less and less to say to one another. • If only life were a bible, containing nothing but truth. • An absolute rule – no one is an exception. • Times past were better – so were we. • A recipe for a long life: live less each day. • Interest is like a pipe of peace; it must be shared for peace to rule. • You say it’s all one to you; have you thought that ‘all’ is plural? • The fool who keeps company with the wise is not such a fool after all – nor is the wise man who keeps company with fools very wise. • Take your time over the first step, the second follows by inertia. • You can tell the day by its morning, but the year by its last day. • As a footballer I was a national hero, but there were eleven of us. • I thought I’d stop the clock this year but it’s already 31st December. • Friends are like teeth, they fall out one by one. • The world has always been deceitful, but it has more accomplices now. • Even under a king’s crown it’s a man who makes the decisions. • Equality between men and women is merely biological, in life she is everywhere. • Power today is won by a majority of votes – and the number of promises that won’t be kept. • Between life’s first minute and its last – time flies. • The earth’s in a tight place – everything’s on the increase. • Now is better than next time. • A stranger at home, a stranger abroad – a citizen of the world. • Wine can’t breathe because of the cork, but without it, it goes sour. • First kitsch, then avantgarde. • It’s no laughing matter being the tree of life in a forest fire. • Write a word every day, in the end you’ll have a novel. • Carnivores are bad because they eat meat, herbivores good because they graze on flowers. • If you don’t go on you’ll get to where you left off. • What kind of laughter is a sneer? • The gift of genius is public comedy, it raises a laugh. • I’m looking for a way to tell you everything to your face – have you time to listen to any of that? • Let’s chain Prometheus, the forest has begun to blaze around him. • All present applauded the speaker, even the author of his speech. • The meeting of evil spirits is postponed – they can’t bear standing on a sound platform. • Art has become universal – what someone can do, anybody can. • Shorten the next journey to the next step. • Look at success after an interval of time – isn’t there something grotesque in it? • I write freely, expecting the verdict to be liberating. • If you don’t live among friends, you too will become an enemy. • Politicians today have nothing to be pardoned for; they’re not guilty of anything. • A little every day and already a lot more. • People are blind in two situations – when they love and when they hate. • Because we all give, everyone gets something. • Leap over what doesn’t deserve to be walked over. • The Achilles’ heel of the footstep is its print. • Be extreme, the average is middling. • Seeing birds fly freely, the emigrant would like to be a migrant. | • The equator is at your feet, with your next step you’ll be North or South. • Women and luck are alike, both changeable by nature. • Until you begin to apologise, you’ve done nothing wrong. • The universe is endless, time without a beginning. • Stay in one place – you have to die somewhere. • I’ll spend my time with you if you’ll leave me alone. • Think differently about the same thing. • You’re living dangerously – one day you’ll hit the headlines. • My friends know me better because they look me in the eye more often. • What sort of friendship should we opt for: a day’s, a year’s or a lifetime’s? • A foolish thought in a play on words isn’t so any more. • Tomorrow is the day of our first encounter, today of our last farewell. • I follow in your footsteps but your feet leave no prints. • The world has changed, everyone has begun to look like everyone else. • From where on the globe should I set out to reach my goal? • Better to conquer yourself than have others defeat you. • Since we understood each other at once we have neither a past nor a future. • A new sort of racism – party colours. • Who loves, overdoes things; who overdoes things is not loved. • No one is last as long as love at first sight exists. • As long as you’re pacific, you’re the greatest ocean. • Of nine chances, we’re the tenth. • Ruler, is the middle class content? The upper class will never be. • Man’s ecological error – overpopulation. • Three kinds of slave: the slave to power, the wage slave and the credit slave. • Distance yourself from yourself, you’re close to evil. • Sure of yourself, sovereign everywhere. • I stand the way my affairs stand. • The world’s become tragicomic, nobody laughs outright without a tragedy. • You’re my first love; at the start I was the last to be first. • After the first comes the average. • As long as there was capitalism and communism there was the cold war; now the world’s in flames. • Better days are coming, so man will be even worse. • The nation and nationalities will be richer, everyone working on his own account. • The tax we pay from birth is life, the interest our years. • I’ve learned nothing from myself, all my life I’ve learned from life. • Talk openly but in an open space – words eco. • The difference between profit and profiteers: profit is divided, profiteers multiply Punishment is most often revenge, but when punishment errs it dreams of pardon. • I’ve a feeling I’ve seen you somewhere! Yes, don’t you have a feeling you need me for something? • I stand the way my affairs stand. • Everything depends on the election, who will pay for it? • The younger generation likes autumn, it sees the older as a deciduous forest. • Don’t miss the moment if your future’s in it. • Of all consequences, the first is the longest. • The actress understood too late, to be a fashionable success she should be naked. • Spring’s arrived, the flowers are in bloom, but no one’s taken a sniff at me. • Of all womankind, the motherland weeps most honestly. • Brief announcement: full stop. • I say the same thing all the time, in this I differ from others. • Be in touch with your soul, the body’s fickle. • Judging from my instinct, they’re right to call me an animal. • Macedonia is immortal: it’s surrounded by deathless foes. • I’m always the first to do wrong, that’s why I’m so experienced. • Either be it, or stop going on about what you want to be. • Why shouldn’t I gossip about my friends? My enemies know in advance what I’ll say about them. • He who is born with everything he needs has no need of himself. • Whoever wants to rule should be a realist, the female sphere is not amenable to that. • I’ve no need of a visa, my friendship has no frontiers. • Think freely about freedom of thought. • The glass in your hand is fragile, the water in it heavy. • Why so many smiling politicians when they persuade us we’re living in difficult times? • I was sacked, I’d no electricity, my child had neither bread nor milk. The first snow fell! I went out for a walk boiling inside. • The wise man counsels the foolish as long as he doesn’t trust him – then he laughs at him. • As long as your chances are sinking, you swim well. • Between the frontier and the marriage bed there’s a foreigner. • According to the statistics, crime has decreased – but just wait till the next election. • Wise plus wise, wiser; foolish plus foolish, more foolish. • In childhood death is an illusion, in middle age a reality, and in old age an everyday occurrence. • The easiest woman is the inquisitive one, she’ll give herself to convince herself. • In life we either weep or laugh – the rest is the daily round. • When everything’s in motion, it’s hard to escape being trodden on. | • The bad novel became a drama, all the characters started to ham it up. • Be civilised, abstain. • Where there’s punishment there’s fear, where there’s fear there’s deceit. • After the good times comes reality. • When a rich man swims in a sea of cash, he thinks it’s an ocean. • The difference between the unfaithful man and the unfaithful woman – she has the greater choice. • If you’ve decided to go all the way, distance yourself. • Enough! – so that it doesn’t get boring. • When it’s certain the force that’s heading for you will win, face another way. • To live healthily, you should eat well – to live longer, eat less. • Judge the sublime, the rest is error-free. • Be in the middle; don’t underestimate the one below you, or overestimate the one above you. • If somebody serves you as a model, don’t undress in front of them. • Fill the mouth that constantly criticizes you, and the same mouth will shower you with praise. • Swim in the sea of love; later you’ll start to drown in it. • What would Tutankhamen’s attitude to silence be, when nowadays every ‘pharaoh’ has his own spokesman? • How to prevent the inevitable, when it’s a part of what’s to follow? • Line up in order, I want to set you right. • I’m in form, my wallet’s shaking. • I am the avantgarde, I trample all before me. • The price goes up when we are paying, and falls when others do so for us. • Who’s more in the right: he who usurps another’s right, or he who wants to keep the right for himself? • Don’t limit the movement of those who follow you. • Write down what you said, but use fewer words. • Seize the moment when you’re in fashion, for fashion’s moment doesn’t last long. • Don’t irritate the mouth whose tongue expresses itself crudely. • Have we ever asked ourselves what happens behind the man who always wants to be in the foreground? • What do cows think of silicone breasts? • Finally the tastes of artists and consumers have coincided – paint and consume a Big Mac, Coca Cola or spaghetti. • I’m in a fix: should I take the queen, or checkmate the king? • Why shouldn’t I sell myself, if someone’s prepared to pay more than I’m worth? • There’s a philosopher with universal wisdom – he’s called Old Age. • No one is as young as his years, or as old as the years life has given him. • What is the evolution of the line of least resistance when the whistle blows for an outsider, and when it blows for the favourite? • We say that there’s nothing in space – that means there’s no space. • A king’s crowning success is his queen, the queen’s when both crowns are united on her head. • Today a person no longer knows whether the world has become civilised or militarised. • The end of all illusions – I’ve hit reality by mistake. • What should one’s attitude be when someone has done something for someone else and the benefit is mutual? • What would a novel look like with the first and the last pages blank? • Is there an ordinal number for the consequences of a wrong decision? • I’ve reached the peak of the pyramid, what’s the next point? • When you’re on the list of undesirables, the only consolation is that if they scored you out they might mark your name with a cross. • It’s a full moon tonight, should I think of sex or my wages? • Producers of the world, distribute yourselves! • Decide what your future route will be – the path you follow every day, or the road you should set out on? • Write down what you said, but use fewer words. • After Mt. Everest the next peak is Mars. • Does anyone know where the epicentre of a shaky marriage bed lies? • Money is a trial – spending deliveres the verdict. • Everything happens quickly – except in sex. • A kind od depresion – uncertainty |
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