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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - [Happiness] The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. - [Rights] The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. - [Lying] The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - [Humility] The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. - [Happiness] The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - [Belief] The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. - [Punishment] The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. - [Honor] The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. - [Morality] The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - [Friends] The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. - [Love] The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - introduction to a catalogue for A.L. Coburn's exhibition [Photography] The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who don't have it. - [Cynicism] The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. - [Idols] The stock actor is a stage calamity. - [Actors] The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. - [Breeding] The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. - [Artists] The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. - [Idiots] The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. - [Conceit] The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max. - in the "Saturday Review" on handing the theatre review to Max Beerbohm [Youth] There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. - [Experience] There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - [Food : Love] This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. - [Society] Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all crimes. - [Charity] Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. - [Truth] Displaying page 5 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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