Occupation: Writer Birth: November 20, 1871 Death: January 11, 1943
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest..
In life as in football, fall forward when you fall..
A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late!.
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks….
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question..
God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!.
Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer..
Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex..
For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad..
Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved..
No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass..
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so..
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses..
It takes a bee to get the honey out.
Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone..
Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy..
It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Som….
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in..
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart..
I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals.
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -.