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- A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. More
- A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear... More
- A man’s eroticism is a woman’s sexuality. More
- Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the... More
- All human race would fain be wits.
And millions miss, for one that hits. More
- Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same... More
- An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. More
- And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass,... More
- And, is not Virtue in Mankind
The Nutriment that feeds the Mind? More
- As with a moral view designed
To cure the vices of mankind;
His vein, ironically... More
- But you think ... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could... More
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
(By sure prognostics) when to dread a... More
- Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. More
- Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? More
- Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon... More
- Come, agree, the law’s costly. More
- Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the... More
- Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of... More
- Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no... More
- Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave. More
- Description would but tire my Muse:
In short, they both were turned to yews. More
- Desponding Phyllis was endu’d
With ev’ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man... More
- Duns at his lordship’s gate began to meet;
And brickdust Moll had screamed through half the... More
- Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. More
- Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot... More
- Fair Liberty was all his cry;
For her he stood prepared to die;
For her he boldly stood... More
- Faith! he must make his stories shorter
Or change his comrades once a quarter. More
- Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For... More
- For poetry, he’s past his prime,
He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
His fire is out, his... More
- For such orators to write is commonly as hard and fatal to their fame as to speak is easy and... More
- For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labour, and search, and ranging through... More
- For Virtue in her daily Race,
Like Janus bears a double Face;
Looks back with Joy where... More
- From not the gravest of Divines,
Accept for once some serious Lines. More
- Had he but spared his tongue and pen
He might have rose like other men;
But power was... More
- He gathers all the parish there;
Points out the place of either yew,
Here Baucis, there... More
- He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be... More
- He has gone over to the majority. More
- He never courted men in station
Nor persons had in admiration;
Of no man’s greatness... More
- He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine with him; said I, I value not your bill of... More
- He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. More
- How haughtily he cocks his nose,
To tell what every schoolboy knows. More
- How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when... More
- I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little, odious... More
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy... More
- I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was... More
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by... More
- I to such blockheads set my wit!
I damn such fools!—Go, go, you’re bit.’ More
- I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more... More
- If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a... More
- If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth... More
- If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. More
- In church your grandsire cut his throat;
To do the job too long he tarried:
He should... More
- In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my... More
- In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again,... More
- In these loud times which boom with the horrible symphony of actions which produce reports and of... More
- Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a... More
- It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done... More
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever... More
- It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the... More
- It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to... More
- It is uplifting to lose one’s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a... More
- Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill... More
- Jove, nodding, shook the Heavens, and said,
‘Offending race of human kind,
By nature,... More
- Justice is a whore that won’t let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from... More
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. More
- Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. More
- May you live all the days of your life. More
- Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom;... More
- My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness... More
- Nature abhors a vacuum. More
- News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two... More
- Nor do they trust their tongue alone,
But speak a language of their own;
Can read a nod,... More
- Now hardly here and there an hackney coach
Appearing, showed the ruddy morn’s... More
- Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
Threat’ning with deluge this devoted... More
- O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee,
Whose graceless children scorn to own thee!
... Yet... More
- Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. More
- Or on the Mat devoutly kneeling
Would lift her Eyes up to the Ceiling,
And heave her... More
- Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. More
- Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter,... More
- Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When... More
- Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper... More
- Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their... More
- Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. More
- Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. More
- Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. More
- Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. More
- Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. More
- Stella this day is thirty-four
(We shan’t dispute a year or more)—
However, Stella,... More
- Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. More
- Sweeping from butcher’s stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
Drown’d puppies, stinking sprats,... More
- The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it. More
- The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. More
- The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. More
- The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the... More
- The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the... More
- The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. More
- The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though... More
- The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. More
- The most positive men are the most credulous. More
- The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the... More
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