I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.