There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.