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O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us.
Source: In...
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Source: Attributed.
-- Robert...
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd...
But the cheerful Spring came kindly on
And show'rs began to fall:
John Barleycorn got up again
And sore...
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the country...
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment . . . . a place where you're least likely to be bitten my...
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and...
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer...
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do...
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy...
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it...
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear...
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those...
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no...
I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an...
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Source: The...
For the courage of greatness is adventurous and knows not withdrawing,
But grasps the nettle, danger, with resolute...