'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.
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.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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...
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Time stays, we go.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry...