The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.