 He is now rising from affluence to poverty. |
| Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. |
| Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. |
| Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. |
| It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. |
| I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. |
| Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. |
| Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. |
| The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. |
| Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. |
| Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. |
| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
| Better a broken promise than none at all. |
| The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. |
| Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. |
| There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. |
| It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. |
| Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. |
| Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. |
| A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. |
