A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.