An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience..

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble..

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it..

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists..

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo..

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race..

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality..

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings..

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely s….

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetua….

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue..

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness..

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be.….

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint..

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?.

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name..

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday..

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent..

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towar….

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country..