Aphorisms

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

If you solve all of your children’s problems, they will have no problems left but you.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Whoever was lucky enough to wake up in Belgrade this morning can consider that he has achieved enough in life for today.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Common sense is not so common.