A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
