Aphorisms

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.