If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.