I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. WILL DURANT AdequateAgainstFannedFlameHastyIncomeMagazineMutual
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. WILL DURANT FeraHopeMindMostPeopleRatherThinkTrouble
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. WILL DURANT GiveKnowledgeOnlyPhilosophyScienceUsWisdom
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. WILL DURANT ArtDiplomacyEspeciallyHalfNothingSaySpeakWhen
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. WILL DURANT ActivityCivilizationCultureFreedomOldestPromote
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. WILL DURANT DiscoveryEducationIgnoranceOurOwnProgressive
We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. WILL DURANT BestCenturyEventInformLastSixty
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. WILL DURANT AdjustCodeConditionEnvironmentMoralThemselves
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. WILL DURANT AlwaysCleverGoodNothingOftenSayThing
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. WILL DURANT LessMemoryMotherPenetrateReasoningSeatSoonerSpankTakeTimeTired
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. WILL DURANT AgainBecomeCecomeEveryHatredJustOnlyRespectableViceVirtueWartime
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. WILL DURANT ContinueDeclarationIndependenceMakeNatureneverReadUnequal
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. WILL DURANT BroadwayExcessFortyFreedomJustLiveLookStreetTwo
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. WILL DURANT BeenEightFreeHundredOnlyPastSixtyTwoWarYear
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours. WILL DURANT BestCountryEarthEventFourHourInformLastPeopleTwentyWe
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. WILL DURANT FourHurLastLittleMostMuchSixSpendThousandTimeTooTwentyYear
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. WILL DURANT AgeDiscoveryFreedomGreatLibertyMadeOldProductStressYouth
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. WILL DURANT AlwaysCleverGoodHistoryLessonNothingOftenOneSayThing
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. WILL DURANT AnotherAnswerBotherHuman BeingInterestKnowLastMostneverQuestionRaiseSufferThingWonderWorld
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. WILL DURANT BasisEvenExcessGovernmentPerishPrincipleTend
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. WILL DURANT AdmitAgeAgesGoLastMachineManMcanniotMindOnThingWill
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. WILL DURANT BankerHistoryHoardInflammatoryKnowLastManMoneyThingWise
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. WILL DURANT DishonestIllOtherOurselvesPraiseSpeakWay
