53 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.”
“Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.”
“Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.”
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.”
“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“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.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
