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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in 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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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