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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.
Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.
I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.