QUOTATIONS

• "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."

• "A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

• "I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."

• "I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house."

• "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not."

• "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."