It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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?
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The best way out is always through.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.