One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

Lorsque, bien plus tard, au lycée, M. Laplane nous enseigna que la chouette était l'oiseau de Minerve, et qu'elle représentait la sagesse, je fis un si grand éclat de rire qu'il me fallut copier, jusqu'au gérondif, quatre verbes qui, de plus, étaient déponents.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.