•A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
•A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
•A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
•A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
•Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
•Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
•Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
•Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
•Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
•Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
•Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
•I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
•I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation
•If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example
•Lack of money is the root of all evil.
•Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
•Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
•Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
•Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open
•Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
•Most people do not pray; they only beg.
•No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious
•There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
•Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
•Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
•Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power
•Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
•Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
•Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
•The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
•The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
•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 worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
•There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it
•There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
•We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
•When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
•When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
•Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
•Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
•You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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