It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of s...
We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
