You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform or pause and reflect.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

We may not pay devil reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know nothing about it.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.

Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.