| Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. |
| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. |
| Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. |
| There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. |
| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. |
| I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. |
| Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. |
| Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves. |
| Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. |
| When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool. |
| It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so. |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. |
| A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over. |
| Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. |
| Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope. |
| We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. |
| There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. |
| Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. |
| Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. |
| It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. |
| After enlightenment, the laundry. |
| It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. |
| What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do. |
| It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. |
| Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. |
| The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. |
| The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. |
| Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner. |
| I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. |
| The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. |
| The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. |
| One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. |
| Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to. |
| Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. |
