“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”

“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”

“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”