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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

A yawn is a silent shout.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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