Great Throughts Treasury

"Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning."

"Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes."

"Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved's innermost thoughts."

"Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does."

"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."

"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

"Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe."

"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."

"Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking"

"Listening to people keeps them entertained."

"Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology."

"Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are."

"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."

"Life is struggle and sleep."

"Love talks and talks; Lust is brief and to the point."

"Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation."

"Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous."

"Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises."

"Magic lives in curves, not angles."

"Many think that assigning blame settles matters."

"Many gloat over their own troubles."

"Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment."

"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

"Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy."

"Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth."

"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."

"Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky."

"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

"Money: power at its most liquid."

"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."

"Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows."

"My mind is led astray by every faint rustle."

"Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten."

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"Never try to leap from a standstill."

"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."

"My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures."

"Never ask a bore a question."

"Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past."

"No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime."

"Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses."

"Old age likes indecency; It?s a sign of life"

"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."

"Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality."

"Orgasm: the genitals sneezing."

"Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them."

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

"Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name."

"Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."

"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."