[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.