An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.