Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. |
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. |
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway. |
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. |
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. |
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. |
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. |
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. |
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. |
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. |
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. |
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. |
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. |
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. |
The family is the nucleus of civilization. Topics: Family |
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. |
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. |
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. |
Inquiry is fatal to certainty. |