Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Romance is everything.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

It is very easy to love alone.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.