Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.

People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country

But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Between my husband, my son and I, we'll always have a bit of both in our lives. We need a bit of both because the cities are so different, and we have that luxury. We're really lucky

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.