If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out |
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. |
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty |
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. |
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. |
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. |
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. |
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. |
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. |
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. |
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. |
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped |
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. |
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. |
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. |