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It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.
You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
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.
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.
Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn
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.
The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.
We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.
...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.
There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.