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" I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. "

Franklin P. Adams
" Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. "

Franklin P. Adams
" There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. "

Franklin P. Adams
" To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. #People,forgiveness "

Franklin P. Adams
" When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. "

Franklin P. Adams
" Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. "

Franklin P. Adams
" A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. "

John Ciardi
" The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. "

John Ciardi
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

John Ciardi
" Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. "

Guy Davenport
" It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal. "

Eknath Easwaran
" Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. "

Eknath Easwaran
" Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. "

Eknath Easwaran
" Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. "

Edward Fairfax
" After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired. "

Robert Fitzgerald
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