We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can't find them, then make them.
You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’