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Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.