- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw
off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is
out of focus.
- Work and play are words used to describe the same thing
under differing conditions.
- Those who don't read have no advantage over those who
can't.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
- The human race has one really effective weapon and that
is laughter.
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be
born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Under our free institutions anybody can poison himself
that wants to and will pay the price.
- If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself
one.
- The political and commercial morals of the United States
are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- . . . rumor will die itself if you will only give it
three days. Start any rumor, and if the public can go with its curiosity
unsatisfied for three days something else will spring up which will
make the public forget all about the first one.
- We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the
fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell
of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite
that sweeps the land as a consequence.
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes
me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest
of us could not succeed.
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The
secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker
will be sorry.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence
of fear.
- When your friends begin to flatter you on how young
you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- When I was younger I could remember anything, whether
it happened or not.
- It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls
while they are still rolling.
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