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| It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. | | Appearance | |
| It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. | | Uncategorized | |
| Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. | | Literature | |
| Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. | | Love | |
| Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. | | Mankind | |
| Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. | | Uncategorized | |
| Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. | | Actors and acting; Managers | |
| Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. | | Uncategorized | |
| Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder | | Marriage | |
| My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate | | Uncategorized | |
| My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy | | Advice; Philosophy | |
| Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. | | Uncategorized | |
| Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. | | Uncategorized | |
| One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home | | Pride | |
| Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. | | Providence | |
| Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day | | Uncategorized | |
