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- Disobedience is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
- That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- A man may be a fool and not know it – but not if he is married.
- Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
Last reviewed 2026-07-06