It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
People fail forward to success.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
My head rang like a gong.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
People fail forward to success.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
He who laughs, lasts!
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Walking is man's best medicine.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Vigorous writing is concise.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
My head rang like a gong.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Worries go down better with soup than without.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
So little time and so little to do.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
My friends are my estate.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Who were these clowns?
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Is there life before death?
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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