Verified Quotes

"For years my heart sought the Cup of Jamshid from me — and begged from strangers what it already possessed."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?"

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

"People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial."

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first and main characteristic of mankind."

"In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be."

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is."

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food"

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"The Socialists have spared no expense in producing a policy for the next election. There is a great deal in it that is sound sense, as well as a lot more that is all sound and all nonsense."

"It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting to a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse."