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 squash.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
