A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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

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

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

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

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

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

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

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

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

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

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one...

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

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

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

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

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

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

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

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

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

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

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

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.