Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.
Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
