Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.