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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary…. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things: Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.
