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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.