Quotes by James Whitcomb Riley

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.