If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.