1. “Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.”
2. “Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.”
3. “As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”
4. “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
5. “Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.”
6. “Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
7. “Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.”
8. “Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
9. “Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
10. “Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.”
11. “Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.”
12. “Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
13. “Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.”
14. “Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.”
15. “Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.”
16. ”Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”
17. “I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.”
18. “If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.”
19. “I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.”
20.“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.”
21. “Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.”
22. “Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.”
23. ”Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
24.”Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
25. ”Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
26.“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
27. ”Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
28.“Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.”
29.”Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”
30.“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”
31. “One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.”
32. “One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
33. “Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.”
34.“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
35. “Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.”
36.“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
37. “The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.”
38.“The less we know the more we suspect.”
39.“There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.”
40. “There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
41. “There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.”
42.“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.”
43.“There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.”
44. ”There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
45.“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
46. “There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”
47.“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
48. ”The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.”
49. “The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
50.“The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven.”
51. “To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.”
52. “To finish is to win.”
53. ”Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.”
