Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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.
With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?
Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.
If a child shows himself to be 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 knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many of them as i haveyou would notbelieve in them either
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
justice…is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.
they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves
An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.
my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand “pete s holiday
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
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!
Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
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.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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!
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’
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.
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.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.