The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
The thoughtless are rarely wordless.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates.
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
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.
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.