A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the w...
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with t...
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire....
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in thatconnexion, Mr Keegan.KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this world is hell. Butsince the word offends you, let me soften it, and comp...
It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
Shall I turn up the light for you?No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?