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Do not waste your time on Social Questions.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

A man who has no office to go to - I don't care w

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A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give

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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope?&#

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is g

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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of t

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my ta

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our p

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why m

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, w

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an aco

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the w

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

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