 The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. |
| You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. |
| The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. |
| I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. |
| 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. |
| Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. |
| A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. |
| Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. |
| 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. |
| No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. |
| What we live by we die by. |
| Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. |
| I had a lovers quarrel with the world. |
| 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. |
| Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. |
| Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. |
| The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. |
| The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. |
| No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. |
| Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. |
