For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.
From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
No, she laughed.” How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees ‘There is no cure for this disease.’
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
When I am dead I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet but his books were read.’
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat – Like an unsuccessful literary man.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
I’m tired of love I’m still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.
The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.