When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.