Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
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.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
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.
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.
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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.
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
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.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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