The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing |
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people |
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. |
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. |
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. |
The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries |
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false |
The stock actor is a stage calamity |
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. |
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. |
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. |
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. |
The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money. |
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 |
The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances. |