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A bee is...

A bee is...

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

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One of the...

One of the...

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is...

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A determined soul...

A determined soul...

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a...

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An ideal museum...

An ideal museum...

An ideal museum show would . . . be a mating of Brideshead Revisited . . ., with House & Garden. . . ., provoking...

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To buy very...

To buy very...

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of...

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We all have...

We all have...

We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

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There are three...

There are three...

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation....

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Opportunity knocks, but...

Opportunity knocks, but...

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Source: In Collection of...

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Euphemisms are not,...

Euphemisms are not,...

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they...

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Our imaginations seem...

Our imaginations seem...

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

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This world is...

This world is...

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In...

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Willie Shoemaker: Anybody with a...

Willie Shoemaker: Anybody with a...

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of...

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True, a little...

True, a little...

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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[Rubinstein was] a...

[Rubinstein was] a...

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Source: On...

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The greatest felony...

The greatest felony...

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity...

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I gave up...

I gave up...

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely...

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In the next...

In the next...

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial...

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An idea isn't...

An idea isn't...

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Source: In New York...

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It does no...

It does no...

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been...

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