Children pay little attention to their parents’ teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.
At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.