Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.