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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Chess is one long regret.
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.
I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.
You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
