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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.