A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed |
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. |
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. |
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. |
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. |
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. |
Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night. |
All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages |
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it |
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons |
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. |
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. |
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. |
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. |
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. |