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.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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.
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.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.