The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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Quotes
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Bella Abzug
Jean Cocteau
Rene Descartes
John Dickinson
Athenus
Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
George Bernard Shaw
G. K. Chesterton
Henrik Ibsen
Dan Cruickshank
Rene Descartes
Donald G. Smith
Juvenal
Mike Ditka
Christian Cardell Corbet
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
Earl Warren
Kahlil Gibran
Bhagavad Gita
George Bernard Shaw
Frederick Douglas
Alexandre Dumas