The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'