A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over |
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. |
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money |
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age |
Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child . . . |
The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many. |
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. |