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 | "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have
nothing whatsoever to do with it." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, But that they
cease to love." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we
love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed
person." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "You can"t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a
principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency." | |
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Found in the topic Expedience.
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| "Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in
life? But it wants leisure." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable
substitute for wit." | |
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Found in the topic Quotations.
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| "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one"s
faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one"s memories." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it
values more, it will lose that too." | |
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Found in the topic Comfort.
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| "You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches
them tolerance." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom
of action." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does
that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and
vindictive." | |
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Found in the topic Pain.
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| "Only a mediocre person is always at his best." | |
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Found in the topic Best.
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| "Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing
one?s mind." | |
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Found in the topic Exaggeration.
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| "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one
knows what they are." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "Perfection - Nothing more than a complete adaptation to the
environment; but the environment is constantly changing, so perfection can
never be more than transitory." | |
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Found in the topic Perfection.
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| "Money is like a sixth sense - and you can"t make use of the other
five without it." | |
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Found in the topic Money.
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| "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain,
egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes
them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people
cruel and bitter." | |
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Found in the topic Factory.
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| "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn"t want to be
bothered with sex and all that sort of thing." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is
more powerful in the mature than in the young." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed
adultery, are now extinct." | |
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Found in the topic Adultery.
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