There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet.
If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they’re broke they raise them. That’s statesmanship of the highest order.
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.