You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.