 It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. |
| Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. |
| Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. |
| Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. |
| One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. |
| I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. |
| The only really happy folk are married women and single men. |
| A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. |
| A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. |
| Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. |
| All government, of course, is against liberty. |
| Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. |
| We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. |
| Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
| A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. |
| Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. |
| Criticism is prejudice made plausible. |
| Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. |
| Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? |
| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. |
