Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
All students can learn.
The plural of spouse is spice.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
That's what this country needs -- more books!
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
