War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

A poet over 30 is pathetic

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.