Men are boys in bigger packages.
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.
The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.
A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.
Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it's not quite like you, if you know what I mean. . . it's almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.
I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.