Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going |
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe |
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing |
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. |
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. |
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. |
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. |
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does |
Only the sinner has a right to preach |
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. |
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained |
Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard |
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. |
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. |
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets |