Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.