* My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
* Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
* Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
* How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg
* And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
* The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
* If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
* My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

(1874 – 1963) – American poet. Winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes.

• Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
• By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
• Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
• The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn’t stop until you get to the office.
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
• The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

• The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
• It is the source of all art and science.
• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
• If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
• Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
• Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.