One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. – Karl Kraus
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I’ve dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. – Tom Stoppard
