Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.
I'd like to thank the committee that brought this event about. It was an equal endeavor. They did the food, decorations, and reservations, and I did the traffic flow.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.