Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
If it bleeds, you can kill it
Guess again.
This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.
Geschichte ist […] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. [re-transl.:] History is […] a dialogue between the present and the past.
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.