William Ralph Inge Quotes

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

The happy people are those who are producing something.