Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
experience, love & women
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Time stays, we go.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
All government, of course, is against liberty.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
experience, men, wisdom & women
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
art, government & science