Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
The days you work are the best days. rhcp songs
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
Decisions are made by those who show up.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.
Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.
God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but…
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.
When we die, our bodies are buried. When we live, our souls are buried.
Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger…
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses…
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful…
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. fitness
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
I can live with death.
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
It is a good idea to ''shop around'' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be…
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing…
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
A kiss may ruin a human life.
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he? for some reason? thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We…
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.
If you wanna be free, you've gotta accept everything.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
Either war is obsolete or men are. rental cars chicago
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.
Arbitration is justice blended with charity.