Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
Love
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Quotes by George Jean Nathan
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Love
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Wisdom
I drink to make other people interesting.
Wisdom
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
Wisdom
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Wisdom
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
Life
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Wisdom
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Wisdom
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Wisdom
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
Wisdom
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Wisdom
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Wisdom
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
Wisdom
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Wisdom
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Wisdom
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
Wisdom
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Love
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
Wisdom
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Wisdom
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Love
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
Wisdom
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
Wisdom
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