Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.
Don’t explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
Don’t dream your life, but live your dream.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he’s a dead man. An Irishman’s stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.