312 quotes found
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“Life is a great bundle of little things.”
“Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embro...”
“Don't be consistent but be simply true.”
“Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.”
“Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.”
“Man has his will - but woman has her way.”
“When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.”
“We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
“When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
“I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.”
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.”
“Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.”
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treati...”
“If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in yo...”
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
“What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!”
“Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
“Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".”
