When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.