Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.