Quotes to inspire and reflect

Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. Thomas H.

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W.H.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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.

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

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.

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

The impotence of God is infinite.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

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

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.