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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
Sep 11, 2025
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Music is the brandy of the damned.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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