If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world
Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
