If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them - you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so |
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. |
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man. |
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. |
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. |
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty |
Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use |
In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, Òone when he was a boy and one when he was a man.Ó |
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man what there is of it. |
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money |
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? |
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. |
In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice |
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. |
In his private heart no man much respects himself. |