Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
~ Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
We are always the same age inside.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Romance is everything.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
