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.
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.
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.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
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.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.