ThursdayMay 21, 2026
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.
There is only one rule for being a good talker learn to listen.
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where its usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
Chattering voltage like a broken wire The wild cicada cried, Six weeks to frost!
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
There was so much handwriting on the wall That even the wall fell down.
A human being; and ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
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