To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. |
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology |
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial |
To eat is human, to digest, divine |
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. |
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals |
To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man |
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman |
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing |
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. |
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do |
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics. |
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough. |
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. |
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those. |