If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
I hate writing. But I love having written.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Peace begins with a smile.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, and the most patient of teachers.
A smile is a curve that sets things straight.
Danger is next neighbour to security.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Man is designed as a perfect device. However, some copies behave as if the manufacturer has forgotten to connect them with all the circuits.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Courage is grace under pressure.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
