A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.