A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.