| Quotes |
Topic |
| Government | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. |
| Heroism | In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. |
| Justice | The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. |
| Laughter | One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. |
| Liberty | I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. |
| Life | Life is a dead-end street. |
| Love | Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. |
| Love | To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. |
| Lying | The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. |
| Marriage | Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. |
| Marriage | If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. |
| Marriage | No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. |
| Men and Women | On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. |
| Men and Women | Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. |
| Men and Women | Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. |
| Men and Women | It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. |
| Military | In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. |
| Money | The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. |
| Morals | Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. |
| Occupation | Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. |
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