| Quotes |
Topic |
| Democracy | Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
| Democracy | ... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". |
| Desire | There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. |
| Difficulty | No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. |
| Diligence | When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. |
| Dress | If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. |
| Duty | When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| Earth | I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. |
| Education | My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. |
| Experience | Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. |
| Experience | If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! |
| Faith | We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. |
| Family | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. |
| Fashion | The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. |
| Fashion | Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. |
| Fashion | Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. |
| Finance and Economics | If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. |
| Flattery | What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. |
| Flattery | Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. |
| Food | There is no love sincerer than the love of food. |
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