There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.