Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

- Aubrey Menen

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

- Aubrey Menen

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then …

- Aubrey Menen

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

- Aubrey Menen

The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that …

- Aubrey Menen