“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
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“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
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“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
Newyears“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
Change“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
Freedom“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
Women“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
Happiness“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
Money“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
Food“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
Humor“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
Friendship“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”
Success“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”
Nature“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
Death“The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”
Anger“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
Good“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
Beauty“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”
Great“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
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