Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

He falls in love because he doesnt want to.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.

Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

You can celebrate the female form in comfort.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.