Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully. |
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess. |
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water |
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. |
My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere |
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies |
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders. |
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges. |
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. |
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, not a truth that anybody would believe. |
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. |
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. |
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJXXLLWCP is pronounced Jackson. |
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought / by force of circumstances, not argument / to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. |
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them |