Aldous Huxley ( 10 of 88 )
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull read more
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected read more
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his read more
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
The proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting read more
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
