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e e cummings
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
e e cummings
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e e cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
e e cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e e cummings
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
e e cummings
Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
e e cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e e cummings
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e e cummings
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
E. B. White
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. Catherine Tobler
Not going home is already like death.
E. F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. H. Gombrich
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
E. Joseph Crossman
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Quotes are sorted in alphabetical order by the authors first name.
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e e cummings
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
e e cummings
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e e cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
e e cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e e cummings
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
e e cummings
Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
e e cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e e cummings
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e e cummings
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
E. B. White
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. Catherine Tobler
Not going home is already like death.
E. F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. H. Gombrich
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
E. Joseph Crossman
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]