A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. Votes: 13
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. Votes: 3
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. Votes: 0
Life is a dead-end street. Votes: 0
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. Votes: 0
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Votes: 0
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. Votes: 0
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. Votes: 0
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. Votes: 0
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself. Votes: 0
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. Votes: 0
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket. Votes: 0
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. Votes: 0
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. Votes: 0
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. Votes: 0
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. Votes: 0
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. Votes: 0
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob Votes: 0
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. Votes: 0
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. Votes: 0
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. Votes: 0
A poet over 30 is pathetic Votes: 0
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. Votes: 0
An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves. Votes: 0
Change is not progress. Votes: 0
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. Votes: 0
Every man is his own hell. Votes: 0
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Votes: 0
He who eats alone chokes alone. Votes: 0
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. Votes: 0
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy. Votes: 0
It is only doubt that creates. Votes: 0
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. Votes: 0
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. Votes: 0
Nature abhors a moron. Votes: 0
New York: A third-rate Babylon. Votes: 0
No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then. Votes: 0
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. Votes: 0
No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ãntonia. Votes: 0
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay. Votes: 0
Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. Votes: 0
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master. Votes: 0
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman. Votes: 0
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool. Votes: 0
There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal. Votes: 0
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason Votes: 0
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Votes: 0
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. Votes: 0
Why do men go to zoos? Votes: 0
Wife: a former sweetheart. Votes: 0