Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life. |
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. |
Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry. |
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. |
New roads; new ruts. |
No man knows he is young while he is young. |
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. |
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. |
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth. |
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. |
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. |
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. |
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. |
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. |