Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
All the old accumulated rubbish-years which we call memory.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
A gentleman can live through anything.
Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.
You dont know very much about women, do you? Women aren’t interested in poets’ dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn’t even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam. [Eula Varner Snopes to Gavin Stevens]
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
Women are like that they don’t acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilising the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.
When you have plenty of good strong hating you don’t need hope because the hating will be enough to nourish you.
What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
