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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat