Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

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.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The money men make lives after them.

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

I'm just happy to be someplace where I'm wanted, where I can dig in and carve out a place for myself,-Caron Butler

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -Samuel Butler

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]