The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid ag...
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his berea...
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give yo...
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid agai...
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is...
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.