The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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