To return to the Epigram Guide Webpage.The ability to perceive the absurd and laugh is proof of sanity.
No man should be pitied, excepting the one whose future lies behind and whose past is constantly in front of him.
You get good by giving it.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Don't tell what you would do if you were someone else - just show what you can do yourself.
The men who act their thought, and think little of their act, are the ones who score.
The men who act their thought, and think little of their act, are the ones who score.
Obstinacy: 1) To stick to your favorite lie or truth because you know you are wrong in either case. 2) The ego's peacock-plumes.
Followers follow as far as the path is good, but at the first bog they balk. Doubters are always recruited from the ranks of the followers.
Who ever heard of anyone catching a cold when he was having a good time!
Reserve your best thoughts for the elect few.
If you believe in the goodness and wisdom of numbers, then never denounce a lynching-party.
f you have never known poverty, heart-hunger and misunderstanding, God has overlooked you, and you are to be pitied.
Stupidity: 1) The Utopia of the wise; the Lethe forbidden to the lips of genius. 2) The driving power of a Mass in motion, 3) An incurable state of somnambulism with which mankind is blessed, and under the spell of which it performs the most fantastic actions, such as marriage, balloting, warring, preaching, selling, buying, baptizing. 4) The leit-motif of the Vaudeville called Progressiveness.
The entire secret of education is this: pleasurable and profitable occupation for head, heart and hand.
Charity: 1) A thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. 2) Bracing up Ralph Waldo Emerson's reputation by attributing literary mousetraps which he should have made, but didn't. (See Cheese.)
Fool patients evolve fool doctors, just as rogue clients manage to secure rogue attorneys to do their bidding.
If you can't be pure, you can at least be sanitary.
Sorcerer: 1) Any one who can make the people of the United States believe they rule. 2) A juggler (hence the founder of any religious, political or philosophical system).
Don't tell what you would do if you were someone else - just show what you can do yourself.
Fortitude is that quality of mind which does not care what happens as long as it does not happen to us.
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