Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
New roads new ruts.
It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
The true object of human life is play.
No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.
When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.
Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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