The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. read more

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in read more

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us read more

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the read more

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and
fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.