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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. I think it would be a good idea. Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him. He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal. The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion. The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows. "9W" Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. We learn from history that we do not learn from history. Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. Spring makes everything look filthy. Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods. The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. The worshiper is the father of the gods. Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires. If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. The people are to be taken in very small doses. Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar. Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. You have to have a talent for having talent. Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love. Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. |
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