People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.
Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.