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If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.
The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.
The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.
There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.
There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.