It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under t...
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
Nobody can be too careful about their habits of speech.
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves.
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
God save King Pendragon,May his reign long drag on,God save the King.Send him most gorious,Great and uproarious,
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.
The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain.
One has to live one's knowledge
He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.
Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can't get the same love from a dog that you can from a human. So clever, too. I bel...
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie a...
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But no...
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...
He could do what all men wanted to, that is, fly