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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune and willingly avoids the sight of distress."
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean..."
Folly in youth is sin, in age is madness."
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
"The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
"Common sense is not so common."
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
"Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
"Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up! I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody!"
"Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief."
"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
"One fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
"High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
"Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there."
"Fish and guests in three days are stale."
"I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says."
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them."
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
"Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"Those who want to give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself."
"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."
"The defects of great men are consolation of dunces."
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."
"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
"Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
"He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short."
"When I was called upon to be Prime Minister, now nearly two years ago, there were not many applicants for the job. Since then perhaps the market has improved."
"Life is too short for men to take it seriously."
"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
"Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
"To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live."
"Every woman should marry - and no man."
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
"I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine."
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
"People are wrong when they say that opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what is wrong with it."
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
"Good fences make good neighbors."
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
"We should behave toward our country as women behave toward the men they love. A loving wife will do everything for her husband except stop criticizing and trying to improve him. We should cast the same affectionate but sharp glance at our country."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
"A good deed never goes unpunished."
"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."
"Politics. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
"We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, too, for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?"
"Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be a prayer and becomes correspondence."
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
"Silence - the most perfect expression of scorn."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
"War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches."
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
"A woman making up her lips is like a soldier preparing his machine gun."
"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."
"Good looks are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in."
"The tyranny of women in the history is the worst tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."
"The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair."
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