Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is "What is it that you still have. —Jimbei

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.