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Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them
I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.
Life, lift the full goblet
away with all sorrow
The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow
Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.
If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
Count of stars an endless number;
If you will continue wakeful;
Count the drops that make a lakeful;
Then if vigilance yet above you
Hover, Count the times I love you;
And if slumber sill repel you
Count the times I do not tell you.
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
The best bet you get is an even break.
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.
In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way
