None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 05:51 sati.