The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
History is more or less bunk.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I didn't even breathe.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Who were these clowns?
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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