They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.