“Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.”
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.”
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.”
“Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.”
“It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.”
“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.”
“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
“The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.”
“I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.”
“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”
“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”
“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”
“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.”
“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.”
“I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.”
“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.”
“Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.”
“Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.”
“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
“As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.”
“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
“The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.”
“As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”