February '02 Epigrams of the Day

Imitation may be the sincerest form insult.

If you expect to try the Roycroft Life for a while, you will need some Rusticating Raiment.

The three ways to obtain health: Camping by the waters, hunting in the mountains, rusticating at Roycroft.

There are people who are in trouble, but their woe is nothing to that of those who expect trouble.

All things are possible, but some things are difficult. Say, teaching turtles to fly.

There are things that are right to say - but not to everybody.

Don't get your headlight behind: reminiscence causes stagnation.

Men first learned to talk by listening to parrots.

Lovers: Unconscious comedians.

Opportunity knocks once at each man's door, but if you, yourself, happen to be knocking when she calls you'll never hear her.

Nature never allows us to read the future - she is not so cruel as that.

There are people who are in trouble, but their woe is nothing to that of those who expect trouble.

Sympathy is the sum of all the virtues.

The man who cannot spare time for out-door recreation usually holds the averages good by taking time to be sick.

Don't pursue culture - you'll scare her to death.

The man who says, " Money isn't everything," is probably in arrears to his landlady.

The trouble began when they commenced to tell each other the truth.

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