Random Quotes

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

The things I never say never get me into trouble.

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

The best richness is the richness of the soul.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more daisies.

Everything has been figured out except how to live.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.