Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we want ...to be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, an...d a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong. It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time s...o that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too o...ld to enjoy life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in th...e mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, whi...ch looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honour a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He ...should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends..., belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »