People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.