Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
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.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.