“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
On writing westerns
Attributed
Kindness, Clarity, and Insight (1984).
Context: It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
On writing westerns
Attributed
“Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!”
tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Ach.+1078
Acharnians, line 1078
Acharnians (425 BC)
On his family
Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
“It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
E 91
Variant translation: A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)