Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth aro...
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.