If you have sex, it should be for you, not for the other person.
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
To be able to forget means sanity.
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something. ' Not at all. ' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.
Every nation has its war party. . . It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.