The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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 should not live one way in private, another in public.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Each body has its art...
People fail forward to success.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I didn't even breathe.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Never eat more than you can lift.
I didn't even breathe.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
People fail forward to success.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.'
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
People fail forward to success.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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 trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
A smiling face is half the meal.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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