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It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.
fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself