How do you ask a woman to gargle your nuts?
We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure. . . another chance in life.
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril. . . It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.