Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
A person who started to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and wasn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.