Words are clothes that thoughts wear

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending.

The principal business of life is to enjoy it.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded.

Union may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Der Unterschied zwischen Gott und einem Historiker: Gott kann die Vergangenheit nicht ndern.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

I read part of it all the way through.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Pictures are entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Let's have some new cliches.

No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

A hospital is no place to be sick

If you've got a message, send a telegram.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

No agency is better than its account executives.