 Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. |
| It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. |
| Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. |
| Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. |
| One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. |
| My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. |
| The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. |
| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. |
| Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. |
| The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. |
| I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. |
| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. |
| Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. |
| Necessity is the mother of taking chances. |
| 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. |
| It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. |
| The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word. |
| Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. |
| When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. |
| A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. |
