As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.
No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.
Many gloat over their own troubles.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
To avoid eye contact, kiss.
When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.
The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.