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Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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.
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.
Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.