General Sayings

Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.

I hate all White people.

Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

If she had been a few years younger, what a fool she would have made of me had she thought it worth her while.