Quotes Database

«I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.»

«Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.»

«My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.»

«There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.»

«But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason»

«Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.»

«There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other, ... We always returned to it ... Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.»

«When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.»

«Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.»

«Never confuse movement with action.»