You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

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.

Running away from someone you love is a race you will never win.

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

I just love bright red drinks!

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.