Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis Quotations
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A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't