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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.