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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Every answer asks a more beautiful question

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Loneliness is a strange gift.

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Not going home is already like death.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.