Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love
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The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
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Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
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California: The west coast of Iowa.
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I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
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The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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Newspapers should have no friends.
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Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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A married man with a family will do anything for money.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
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Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man
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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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This poem will never reach its destination.
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Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them
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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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A big book is a big bore.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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