Them - Quotes
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
I had always been able to gaze in the mirror and see whatever I wanted to see. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.