Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
العادة تروض الناس على أي شناعة، والموضة ستدفعهم لاكتساب أي عادة. The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare. Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of women who love me. In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. A family is a tyranny ruled over by it’s weakest member. How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first? I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get” “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul” “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. “Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” “If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.” I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.” “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them." "There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it." هناك مأساتان في الحياة: الأولى ألا تحصل على منى قلبك. والثانية أن تحصل عليه. "Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends…." "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." انكلترا وأميريكا بلدان تفصلهما اللغة المشتركة. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" "Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool." "Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it." I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. أريد أن أكون مُستهلكٌ كلياً عندما أموت، لأنني كلما عملت بجد أكثر كلما عشت أكثر. الحياة بحد ذاتها متعة. وهي ليست مجرد شمعة محدودة الأجل، وإنما هي بالنسبة لي مشعل متوهج ينير لي اللحظة التي أعيشها، ولهذا أريده أن يسطع ويتوهج قبل تسليمه لأجيال المستقبل القادم. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. " "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." "It is most unwise for people in love to marry." "Lack of money is the root of all evil." "Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability." "Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability." "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous." "She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech." لقد فقدت فن الحوار لكن للأسف مازالت قادرة على الكلام. "There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it." "Virtue is insufficient temptation." I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. |
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