“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”
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“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it”
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"”
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf”
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem”
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land”
“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God”
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions”
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
“Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life”
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life”
“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star”
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author”
“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act”
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living”
“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do”