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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. - [Heaven : Hell] Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. - [Wickedness] We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. - [Humility] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. - [Faith] We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - [Honesty] We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. - [Sex] We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way. - [Civilization] What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one? - [Cynicism] What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. - [Originality] What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - [Education] With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. - [Revolution] Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - [Art] Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap. - [Words] You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - [Honor] You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - [Risk] You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold. - [Gold] You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - [Questions] You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - [Art] Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - [Youth] Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - An Unsocial Socialist [Pessimism] Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. - Androcles and the Lion [Revolution] The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions. - Androcles and the Lion [Thinking] All great truths begin as blasphemies. - Annajanska [Truth] Oh, you are a very poor soldier--a chocolate cream soldier! - Arms and the Man [Soldiers] You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. - Arms and the Man [Soldiers] Displaying page 6 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11 12
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