My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.