A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. |
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. |
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. |
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. |
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. |
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. |
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. |
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. |
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since. |
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. |
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. |
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. |
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. |
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. |
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t. |
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. |
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. |
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. |
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. |
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. |