138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.