Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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 habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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?
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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 innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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