I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask ou...
If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the ba...
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again and keep smiling.
I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer th...
She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defi...
We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two, Lowell suggested.
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