A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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