 Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. |
| The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. |
| There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. |
| I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. |
| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
| People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. |
| England and America are two countries separated by the same language. |
| We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. |
| 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. |
| When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. |
| I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. |
| There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. |
| Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. |
| It is most unwise for people in love to marry. |
| Every man over forty is a scoundrel. |
| Property is organized robbery. |
| It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. |
| The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. |
| If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. |
