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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.