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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you?re boned, what?s left to create the illusion? Let ?em wonder. I never believed in givin? them too much of me.
I was pure as the driven snow, then I drifted.
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
A bird in the hand is dead.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Nothing recedes like success.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Of what one cannot speak of that one must keep silent.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion.
We should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about.
We are thu music makers, the dreamers of dreams.
Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn't paid for sex, has never been married!
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you?re boned, what?s left to create the illusion? Let ?em wonder. I never believed in givin? them too much of me.

I was pure as the driven snow, then I drifted.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

A bird in the hand is dead.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Nothing recedes like success.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Of what one cannot speak of that one must keep silent.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion.

We should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about.

We are thu music makers, the dreamers of dreams.

Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn't paid for sex, has never been married!

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.