Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. |
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. |
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. |
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. |
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. |
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. |
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. |
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. |
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. |
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? |
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. |
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. |
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. |
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. |
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. |
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. |
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. |
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. |
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. |
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. |