53 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
“Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
“I would rather start a family than finish one.”
“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.”
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”
“There is nothing so habit-forming as money.”
“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
“It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.”
“Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.”
“This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!”
“There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these momen...”
“Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
“The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.”
“Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.”
“It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.”
