They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Life is consciousness.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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