Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
All those who try to go it alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
What you want, what you’re hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.
And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there’s religion; and then there’s science; and there’s-and then there’s friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.
If one by one we counted people out.
An idea is a feat of association.
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
At bottom the world isn’t a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he’s there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.