Quotes to inspire and reflect

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Bigamy is having one wife too many.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States."

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Health is not valued till sickness comes "Dr.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." "Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774" #0050 "Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. "Dr.