The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates – 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion.
Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.