Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.