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A fool often...

A fool often...

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Source: In

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The price one...

The price one...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly...

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Sometimes just a...

Sometimes just a...

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

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Sisters define their...

Sisters define their...

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a...

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The debt of...

The debt of...

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill...

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Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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Where we cannot...

Where we cannot...

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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If I have...

If I have...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or...

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A grave blockhead...

A grave blockhead...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they shew one another off to the best...

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Defoe says that...

Defoe says that...

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery,...

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So have I...

So have I...

So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on...

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It takes half...

It takes half...

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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When you tell...

When you tell...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his...

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Anyone who has...

Anyone who has...

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...

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Praise is the...

Praise is the...

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Source: In And I...

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I must just...

I must just...

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Source: Foreword,...

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The writer of...

The writer of...

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and...

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If you haven't...

If you haven't...

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more...

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A good part...

A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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