If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. |
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. |
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. |
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. |
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. |
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. |
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. |
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. |
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. |
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. |
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. |
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. |
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. |
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. |
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. |
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. |
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. |
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. |