Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they did not they would be married too.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

THE OLDER I GROW, THE MORE I DISTRUST THE FAMILIAR DOCTRINE THAT AGE BRINGS WISDOM.