Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
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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.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
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.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
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.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
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