Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
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