 To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. |
| The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. |
| Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Topics: Art |
| New roads; new ruts. |
| And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. |
| There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. |
| Coincidences are spiritual puns. |
| The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. |
| How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. |
| A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. |
| Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. |
| Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Topics: Education |
| The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. |
| Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. |
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. |
| Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. |
| A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. |
| Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. |
