 A thief believes everybody steals. |
| People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. |
| Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. |
| No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. |
| The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. |
| A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. |
| What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. |
| There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. |
| If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. |
| When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. |
| Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. |
| Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. |
| When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. |
| It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. |
| A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. |
| You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. |
| If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. |
| There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. |
| When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. |
| No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. |
