The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Votes: 16
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Votes: 15
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. Votes: 4
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. Votes: 2
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. Votes: 0
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Votes: 0
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. Votes: 0
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Votes: 0
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. Votes: 0
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. Votes: 0
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. Votes: 0
Remember the poor, it costs nothing. Votes: 0
the squeeky wheel gets the grease. Votes: 0
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Votes: 0
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. Votes: 0
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Votes: 0
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. Votes: 0
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. Votes: 0
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. Votes: 0
Method is the arithmetic of success. Votes: 0
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. Votes: 0
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. Votes: 0
Jealousy is one of love's parasites. Votes: 0
Pedantry is paraded knowledge. Votes: 0
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. Votes: 0
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. Votes: 0
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. Votes: 0
Fun is a sugar-coated physic. Votes: 0
Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them. Votes: 0
Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. Votes: 0
Faith is the soul riding at anchor. Votes: 0
Silence is a still noise. Votes: 0
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple. Votes: 0
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. Votes: 0
Young widows still bide their time. Votes: 0
Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance. Votes: 0
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. Votes: 0
Silence never makes any blunders. Votes: 0
Shame is the dying embers of virtue. Votes: 0
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. Votes: 0
Truth is the edict of God. Votes: 0
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance. Votes: 0
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. Votes: 0
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. Votes: 0
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. Votes: 0
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. Votes: 0
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. Votes: 0
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are. Votes: 0
Perseverance is king. Votes: 0
The less we know the more we suspect Votes: 0
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. Votes: 0