Inspirational Quotes

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.