I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. Read Summary
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Read Summary
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. Read Summary
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. Read Summary
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. Read Summary
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. Read Summary
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. Read Summary
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. Read Summary
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. Read Summary
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. Read Summary
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. Read Summary
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Read Summary
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. Read Summary
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. Read Summary
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. Read Summary
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. Read Summary
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. Read Summary
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. Read Summary
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. Read Summary
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. Read Summary