To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save t...
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
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...
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
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.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that...
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the...
Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.