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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.