Quotes
Quotes about Pen
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise; In days of peril firm and brave, And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who has no will but by her high permission; Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer In health--when ill, we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer.
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
