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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.
Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.
Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.