"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."
"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."
"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own."
"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
"It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out."
"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."
"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
"Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you."
"How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."
"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
"One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience."
"Present position and potential developments: some personal views Bayesian statistics, J.R.S.S.A 147: 245–259 (1984) I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios."
"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
"Present position and potential developments: some personal views Bayesian statistics, J.R.S.S.A 147: 245–259 (1984) I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios."
"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."
"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."