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- No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
- The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I…
- That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
- Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.…
- If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
- If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would…
- When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried…
- The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and…
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his…
- It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity…
- We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
- The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely…
- Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand
- A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.…
- A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him…
- A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
- In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join…
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and…
- I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the…
- How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with…
- There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden