10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Repartee is something we think of twenty

four hours too late.

All right,

then,

I'll go to hell.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly,

and I did.

I said I didn't know.

To refuse awards is another way of

accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away.

He must have time to modify his shape.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

What sir,

would the people of the earth be without woman?

They would be scarce, sir,

almighty scarce.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man.

The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

A person with a new idea

is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity

until it had ceased to be one.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.

Another man's, I mean.

The main difference between a cat and a lie

is that a cat only has nine lives.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered

either by themselves or by others.

Only kings,

presidents,

editors,

and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

I never smoke to excess that is,

I smoke in moderation,

only one cigar at a time.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?

It is because we are not the person involved.

Grief can take care if itself,

but to get the full value of a joy

you must have somebody to divide it with.