1.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.

2. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must
Man be of learning from experience.

3. I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do
not tempt me.

4. You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say,
"Why not?"

5. To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest
as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money
badly.

6. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same
one a second time.

7. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

8. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I
rejoice in life for its own sake.

9. The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to
you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself

10. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be
serious when people laugh

11. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it

12. He who has never hoped can never despair

13. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were
and ask why not.

14. Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

15. This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a
mighty one...

16. The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for
it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
17. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

18. Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

19. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

20. Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

21. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

22. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

23. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of
for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
onto future generations.

24. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to
speak it.

25. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain
it.

26. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

27. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.

28. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into
pedantry. Hence University education.

29. Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

30. When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

31. The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all
the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

32. Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must
see the world.

33. Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

34. If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that
you will eat, but you will not live.

35. Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it.
Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and
courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of
life.

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

37. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent

many for appointment by the corrupt few.

38. The harder I work the more I live.

39. A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral
courage.

40. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
41. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder
whether you are happy or not.

42. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a
mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap
heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and
grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

43. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a
mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap
heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments
and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you
happy.

44. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

45. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child.

46. My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is
never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

47. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that
it is his duty.
48. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.

49. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
haven't got it.

50. When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to
murder him it's called ferocity.
51. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of
speech.

52. Virtue is insufficient temptation.

53. Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the
house three days?

54. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

55. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by

supplanting existing institutions.

56. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country
and to mankind is to bring up a family.

57. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them,
make them.

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

59. A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

60. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
61. The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are
happy or not. The cure is occupation.

62. Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

63. The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.