Emotions and Feelings

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt .

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Let your joy be unconfined!

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms .

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest .

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat .

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.