Archives - September 2008

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.