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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.




Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.




Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.




Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.




People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.




Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.




Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.




In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.




Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.




Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.




I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.




Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.




The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.




All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.




In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.




God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.




The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.




If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.




Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.




A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.




The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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