T.S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.
I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.
The curve is more powerful than the sword.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.…
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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As government expands, liberty contracts.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must…
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
I've seen the future, and it's much like the present -- only longer.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then…
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.
Kids, just because I don't care doesn't mean I'm not listening.
All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the…
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
All art is but imitation of nature.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it…
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
...adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.
Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always does too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does…
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an…
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
I'm a great housekeeper: I get divorced, I keep the house.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon…
Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.