 All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. |
| The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. |
| The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. |
| We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. |
| Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. |
| From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. |
| A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. |
| No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. |
| The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. |
| Only the sinner has the right to preach. |
| Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. |
| No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. |
| The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. |
| It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. |
| My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. |
| Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? |
| The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. |
| High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. |
| If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. |
| Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. |
