One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.
No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made o...
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the...
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.
A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.