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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established. ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.