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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Make money, money, honestly if you can; if not, by any means at all, make money.

This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.

This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.