Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
What is life but a series of inspired follies...
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst