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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
History is a bucket of ashes.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Let man be true and every god a liar.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
