Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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