To be social is to be forgiving.
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.