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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.