In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Perfection is a road, not a destination.
Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
Physical prowess is for cowards; a little pain builds character.
The first victim of anger is the angry man.
Freedom is participation in power.
You'll catch a liar before you'll catch a cripple.
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
Fire and water have no mercy.
Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
A Democrat -- too poor to be a capitalist, too rich to be a Communist.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
