Learn Through Quotations

“Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.”

“At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.”

“Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

“The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.”

“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”

“Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.”

“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”

“We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.”

“All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.”

“Travelling is a fool's paradise.”

“The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”

“The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.”

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit .”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“A friend in Power is a friend lost.”

“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”

“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”

“Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”

“Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.”

“Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.”

“Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.”