A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unq...
Children have but little charity for each other's defects.
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could acco...
When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and worship him. That was...
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
I can last two months on a good compliment.