“How many things would you attempt, if you knew you could not fail.”
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the
other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back
when it begins to rain.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.”
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man out of her boy, and another woman makes a
fool of him in twenty minutes.”
“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s
a wife who can’t cook and will.”
“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
“Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself.”
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her
age.”
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that
you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the
skies.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”
“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
“Thinking is not to agree or disagree.
That’s voting.”
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning
and does not stop until you get into the office.”
“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
“By faithfully working 12 hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work 14
hours a day.”
“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
“You’re always believing ahead of your evidence.
The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.”
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his
body — the wishbone.”
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
“You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable.
It takes brains to see the difference.”
“What we live by we die by.”
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness.”
“Education doesn't change life much.
It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
“Being the boss anywhere is lonely.
Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
“For dear me, why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true.”
“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,
alcoholism, it’s egotism.”
“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
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“Our very life depends on everythings’ recurring til we answer from within.”
“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of
learning.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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“Don't tell anyone that you're lonely, because once again you will convince yourself of this.
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house.
Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Avoid people who see your shortcomings and justify or even approve of them.
Such people are either flatterers, or cowards, or simply fools.
Do not expect help from them in any trouble or misfortune.
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
Never marry a woman who has already had many men, it is likely that she will use her experience
to harm you.
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that
there is a book side for everything.”
“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”