Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.