一 (What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.) 二 (Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.) 三 (The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.) 四 (Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.) 五 (When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life, now that I am old, I know it is.) 六 (America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.) 七 (Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.) 八 (The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.) 九 (Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.) 十 (Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.) 十一 (It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.) 十二 (The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.) 十三 (There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.) 十四 (Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.) 十五 (All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction) 十六 (Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.) 十七 (An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.) 十八 (We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.) 十九 (Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.) 二十 (Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.) 二十一 (The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.) 二十二 (A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.) 二十三 (The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. I can resist anything but temptation.) |
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