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Jew, Chaim Weizmann, who invented the poison gas that injured him during the war,
insanity is merely the ability to see into the future.
else. If there’s one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it’s dangerous to believe in anything very much. Especially in Germany. The trouble with us is that we take belief much too seriously.
It’s funny the way you feel when you’ve made love after a long furlough. Like you joined the human race again.
one-horse cab—black coffee in a tall glass with only one inch of cream on top.
He’s the guy who said that truth lives on in the midst of deception.
A very hairy man. Even his hair seemed to have smaller hairs growing on
Smoking is the one thing you can do when you are afraid that doesn’t make you look like you’re afraid.
Trappist beer, which meant it was made under strictly controlled conditions and only by Benedictine monks.
Only a country that had once prohibited alcohol could have produced a beer that tasted like fortified mineral water.
Only a country like Germany could have produced a beer strong enough to make a monk risk the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church by nailing ninety-five theses to a church door in Wittenberg.
one reason why he preferred wine. “If you ask me, the whole Reformation can be blamed on strong beer,” he opined. “Wine is a perfect Catholic dri...
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And look at the countries that drink a lot of beer. They’re mainly Protestant. And the countries where they drink...
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It’s not what you hit them with, it’s where you hit them.
The essence of deception is not the lie that’s told but the truths that are told to support it.
