There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by mys...
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not...
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may f...
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Syllables govern the world.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a...