Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.