An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband |
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions |
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. |
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age |
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age |
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her--especially if that is what she desires. |
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them |
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act. |
Sensitive and even resentful, I tried to make my novel answer all this nonsense. A thing the novel tried to say was that in the matter of human character the people of such an out-of-the-way midland village were as estimable as any others anywhere. . . . This, in my sensitive young fervor, was my emotional tribute to the land of my birth. |
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. |
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously |
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody |
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink |