Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.