You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.
The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
The important thing is somehow to begin.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Bed is the poor man's opera.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.