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

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

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

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

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...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

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...