Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.