One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.
Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when they succeed.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal.
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life?to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
I choose to risk my significance to live so that which came to me as see goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
There's someone out there for everyone-even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them. (L.A. Story)
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it.
Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty many a tower which when it frown'd with all its battlements, was only terrible.
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.
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.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survive at all in the face of social change.