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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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