Society and the World

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters .

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation .

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around .

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten