What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.