A big iron needle stitching the country together. |
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever |
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. |
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself |
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself |
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself |
Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures. |
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. |
Groan and forget it |
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt |
If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential: steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done. |
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. |
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. |
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. |