Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.
Those who aim low usually hit their targets.
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.
I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they’re glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they’re sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they’re bad.
Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow.
Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others.
Make your feet your friend.
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.
In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
I bowl so slowly that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back.
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man’s rib; she was made from his funny bone.
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there’s always someone who wants to destroy it.