Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Love is a smoke raised with the cloud of Sighs, a fire in a loving eye. When unhappy - sea lovers tears. What is more?'s Prudent madness. Bile stifling and sweet delicacy.
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Man is a universe within himself.
An open mind does not always require an open mouth.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself.
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
My work is my only relationship to everything.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.
The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Don't grieve that your roses have thorns. Rejoice instead that your thorns have roses.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
