American Quotes

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.