The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.
Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound.
Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
You can't make someone love you, and while you try, you lose the people who really care.
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong you are.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Science is the record of dead religions.
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.
The very essence of love is uncertainty.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.