Life and Existence

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say the world will end in fire,

Most of the change we think we see in life

I’d like to get away from earth awhile

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

Anatomy is destiny.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

What is the use of a new-born child?

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

There are no second acts in American lives.

There are no second acts in American lives.

See that little stream—we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it—a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.