I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
Nature's mighty law is change.
It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
History is more or less bunk.
Never eat more than you can lift.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.
More than enough is too much.
There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.