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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.