What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.

There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.