When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for themoment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Last Updated on 27 January, 1997