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Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.
The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.
Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough.
Become your dream, and not be told what you are supposed to do.
Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.
I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?
I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.