Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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Quotes by William Ralph Inge
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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