"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
