Quotes to inspire and reflect

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners) #1480 No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

The impotence of God is infinite.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter. G.K.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. G.K.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H. G.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. Thomas H.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.