In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?