Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. "

Related Quotes:

" I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. "

" A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. "

" What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. "

" For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. "

" To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! "

" The cynics are right nine times out of ten. "

" If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. "

" The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. "

" There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. "

" Adultery is the application of democracy to love. "

" A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. "

" It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. "

" I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. "

" For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. "

" Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. "

" Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. "

" The only really happy folk are married women and single men. "

" An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. "

" Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? "

" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "

" Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. "

" Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "

" Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. "

" No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. "

" If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. "

" Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. "

" In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. "

" There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. "

" A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. "

" When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. "