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" Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. "

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" 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. "

" The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. "

" The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. "

" A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. "

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

" It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. "

" Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. "

" I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. "

" 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. "

" No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. "

" No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. "

" In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. "

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

" Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. "

" There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. "

" A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. "

" 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. "

" Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. "

" War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. "

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

" Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. "

" A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. "

" Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. "

" It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. "

" The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. "

" Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

" Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. "

" When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. "