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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.
War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.