R.B. Thomas

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

The time has come to shed this skin. Its cloying inconvenience doesn’t fit me anymore. My new attire strikes color, shine, shadow, makes noise, and may put your teeth on edge. Tough sh–. Get used to it. I’m inviting you to step into your fear and dance with life.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.