If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

All students can learn.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

The bicycle the bicycle surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

All cities are mad but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful but the beauty is grim.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.