A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
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