You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of itâor, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.