A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
The trouble with most folks isn’t their ignorance. It’s knowin’ so many things that ain’t so.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
It ain’t what a man don’t know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.