24 quotes
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
The Volta Review (1934)
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
The wise and subtle deities permit nothing worthy to be lost.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
'Tis evanescence that endures;
The loveliness that dies the soonest has the longest life.
The rainbow is a momentary thing,
The afterglows are ashes while we gaze.
Earth loves to gibber o'er her dross,
Her golden souls, to waste;
The cup she fills for her god-men
Is a bitter cup to taste.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
For him who fain would teach the world
The world holds hate in fee—
For Socrates, the hemlock cup;
For Christ, Gethsemane.
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race
Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
No matter how nearly perfect an Almost Perfect State may be, it is not nearly enough perfect unless the individuals who compose it can, somewhere between death and birth, have a perfectly corking time for a few years.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
dance mehitabel dance
caper and shake a leg
what little blood is left
will fizz like wine in a keg
archy and mehitabel (1927)
there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble
archy does his part (1935)
I have often noticed that
ancestors never boast
of the descendants who boast
of ancestors I would
rather start a family than
finish one blood will tell but often
it tells too much