Everything Quotes

Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

General consultant to mankind.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

My reputation grows with every failure.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

Syllables govern the world.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.