Everything Quotes

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Better never than late.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.