top of page
.png){kind=small}
"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
Standard
Customized
More
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Large families are communities unto their own."
Author Name
Personal Development
"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
Age
"You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."
Heart
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
Life
"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
Society
"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
Society
"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
Goal
"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
Age
"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."
Home
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
Power
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
Events
bottom of page