Archives - April 2002

Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Lost time is never found again

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

This must be Thursday, said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.