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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Property is organized robbery.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Better never than late.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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