The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
Man is a universe within himself.
Building a conscience is what discipline is all about.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros.
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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 law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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.
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
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.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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.
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?
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
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.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.
