A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
Few of us stand prosperity; another man’s I mean.
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely “at home” in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of “being”, then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the “what is next”, of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.
Man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing – I used to be a good boy.