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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.