When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Who were these clowns?
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
History is more or less bunk.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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