“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
Newyears
“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Carl Sandburg
“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
Respect“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”
Work“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
Best“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
Funny“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”
Good“I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.”
Trust“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
Life“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
Poetry“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
Wisdom“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.”
Future“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
Work“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
God“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Failure“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
Poetry“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Time“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
Society“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Happiness“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Poetry“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
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