A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two