The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.
When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
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