There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
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...
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squ...
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