Music is the softest cushion in the world.
In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless, And coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, The putting green was weedless, The college boy was hatless, The proper diet fatless. New motor roads are dustless, The latest steel is rustless, Our tennis courts are sodless, Our new religion--godless.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.