“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”
Death“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Experience“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”
Death“Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.”
God“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
Funny“Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
Music“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
Art“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”
Best“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
Home“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
Death“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
Architecture“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
Truth“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
Marriage“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”
Respect“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”
Death“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.”
Music“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”
Life“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”
Health“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
Life“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.”
God“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
Humor“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'”
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