Milton Viola Fernandes, popularly known as Millôr Fernandes, was an important Brazilian caricaturist, cartoonist, playwright, writer, illustrator, poet and translator.
He worked as a contributor to important publications, such as the magazines Jornal do Brasil, O Cruzeiro and Veja. In addition, he wrote plays, poetry, humorous texts and translated important works by Shakespeare and Sophocles.
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Millôr Fernandes is also one of the founders of the newspaper O Pasquim.
However, one of the best-known talents was the trick to create phrases that reflected on their social context, life, relationships, politics, among other subjects.
see below 20 phrases by Millôr Fernandes.
True friendship is the one that allows us to talk to a friend about all his defects and all our qualities.
Journalism is opposition. The rest is dry and wet storage.
How admirable are people we don't know well.
Parents and children were not made to be friends. They were made to be parents and children.
With a lot of wisdom, studying a lot, thinking a lot, trying to understand everything and everyone, a man manages, after more or less forty years of life, to learn to remain silent.
Democracy is when I command you, dictatorship is when you command me.
Living is drawing without an eraser.
This is the truth: life begins when we understand that it doesn't last long.
You're starting to get old when, after spending one night outside, you have to spend two days inside.
A man starts to get old when he already prefers to walk alone than poorly accompanied.
To snub is to demand boiling coffee and let it cool.
The truth is, most people run away from temptations that they don't even bother to try.
Being a genius is not difficult. It is difficult to find someone who recognizes this.
When everyone wants to know, it's because nobody has anything to do with it.
We only die once. But it's forever.
Once the price has been well adjusted, one must always work for the love of art.
We must not resist temptations: they may not return.
If all men got exactly what they deserved, there would be a lot of money left in the world.
Erudito is a guy who has more culture than fits in him.
Long live Brazil
where the whole year
It's April first.
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