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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.
My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.
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.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.
Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.
Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.