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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.
Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.