A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.
He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
Humor is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded.
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. 'Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!'
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?
Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
Morality is only evidence of low blood pressure.
The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.
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