There ain’t anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
The cost of living hasn’t effected its popularity.
Everything human is pathetic.
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader’s way and makes it plain.
It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
Don’t just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something – anything – about what’s worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
You can’t no more teach what you ain’t learned than you can come from where you ain’t been.
The idea that a baby doesn’t amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.
The man who isn’t a pessimist is a damned fool.
The truth is a precious commodity. That’s why I use it so sparingly.
Children and fools always speak the truth.
When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.