Berthold Auerbach Quotes

Learn to get used to it. Eels get used to skinning.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

Can you even begin to fathom the arduous, debasing journey people endure to serve you comfortably in the luxury you are so accustomed to?

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

I don't have a glamorous lifestyle.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.

I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.