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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I never take my own side in a quarrel.

Don't be an agnostic--be something.

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.