Society and the World

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

it is better to succeed with success than failure. George W.

 

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

A country where men despise sex, and live for it.

 

A country where men despise sex, and live for it.

 

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.