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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Lefty Wise guy dont carry wallets, they carry their money in a roll....beaner on the outs
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.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
As I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Wisdom comes with winters.
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land?and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley.
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant.
Divorces are made in heaven.
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
Men who never get carried away should be.
I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be.
Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
Only lie about the future.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can?t teach someone who writes columns to care.
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe
"Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
If you have a fallback plan, you will fall back.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.
succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.