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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Remote and ineffectual don.
The grace of God is courtesy.
You are my cat, and I am your human.
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
The sea drives truth into a man like salt.
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
