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...
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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...
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 are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
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.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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...
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the...
Time stays, we go.
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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.