John Oliver Hobbes Quotes

He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife’s hand with singular tenderness and called her "Elizabeth." She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.

What a man has done bores everybody, but what he is going to do is always delightful.

... every man is practically three men. There is the man you know before he proposes: there is the man you have accepted: there is the man you have married.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious—and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

: I'd rather be ruled by a liver than by love! </br> : A liver lasts longer!

The wisest are those who can best adjust their disadvantages.

Dearest, every man—even the most cynical—has one enthusiasm—he is earnest about some one thing; the all-round trifler does not exist. If there is a skeleton—there is also an idol in the cupboard!

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster which they call Destiny.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

... entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...

Talking to you...is only thinking to myself—made easier.

... I had rather sleep and eat and dance </br> Than hear a nightingale any day o' the week!

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

Reader. But where are the Unities? </br> Author. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.