Occupation: Author Birth: May 29, 1906 Death: January 17, 1964
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force..
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know..
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it..
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight..
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wi….
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separ….
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards..
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why….
Might does not make right! Right makes right!.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, yo….
The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny..
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment..
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear ….
They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting t….
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something..
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an o….
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails..
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things….
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return..
We cannot build the future by avenging the past..
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance..