Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Eight)

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.

Everywhere I see evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine -- it will not bear a soil.

Let love give way to business: give attention to business and you will be safe.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.