A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
society
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
work
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
morning & work
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
change , education & life
The artist in me cries out for design.
design
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
wisdom
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
poetry & politics
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
work
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
education
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
work
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
business & money
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
change , life & society
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
legal
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
best & society
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
happiness
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
work
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poetry
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
history & power
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Father's Day & love
The best way out is always through.
best & inspirational
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
fear
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
humor
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
great
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
love
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
home
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
age & birthday
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
life & poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
poetry
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
sports
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
art & life
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
love
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
life
I always entertain great hopes.
great
To be social is to be forgiving.
forgiveness
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
poetry
Freedom lies in being bold.
freedom
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
life
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
education
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
family & life
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
great
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
alone & music
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
freedom
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
future
The only certain freedom's in departure.
freedom
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
great
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
freedom & society
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
life
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
men & women
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
funny & wedding
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
work
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
174 quotes about experience
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
165 wisdom & wit regarding future
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
199 wisdom & wit regarding freedom
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
199 other sayings regarding freedom
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
199 quotes about freedom
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
199 more thoughts about freedom
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
204 other quotes regarding education
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
204 other wisdom & wit relating to education
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
174 more quotes about experience
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
141 views about failure
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
270 quotes regarding fear
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
24 other sayings about fitness
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
24 sayings regarding fitness
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
320 sayings about death
A thick skin is a gift from God.
396 quotes about God
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
165 quotes about future
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
240 more quotes regarding faith
Normality is death.
320 other quotes regarding death
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
79 quotes regarding food
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
421 sayings relating to good
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
240 more quotes about faith
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
135 quotes about dreams
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
174 sayings relating to experience
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
141 quotes about failure
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
141 thoughts regarding failure
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
141 more sayings about failure
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
86 more quotes about family
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
165 other sayings about future
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
43 more sayings relating to equality
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
240 sayings about faith
Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
174 other quotes about experience
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
199 wisdom & wit relating to freedom
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
135 more wisdom & wit regarding dreams
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
270 other wisdom & wit relating to fear
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
320 more thoughts regarding death
Failure is impossible.
141 other views about failure
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
240 more thoughts about faith
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
43 other sayings about forgiveness
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
163 wisdom & wit about friendship
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
174 more quotes about experience
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
43 wisdom & wit about equality
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
204 quotes regarding education
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
204 thoughts relating to education
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
204 views about education
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
320 other wisdom & wit about death
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
320 thoughts about death
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
204 thoughts regarding education
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.
43 thoughts about forgiveness
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
43 quotes about forgiveness
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
29 more quotes about gardening