Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.
I am only human, although I regret it.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then su...
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.