Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note ….

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop..

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia..

The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have the….

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as i….

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots..

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, in….

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side hav….

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to un….

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy..

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced..

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages..

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore..

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single..

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with..

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do..

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one..

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the E….

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts….

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard..

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice..