Aubrey Menen Quotes
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The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.
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That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
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Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
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It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.
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