Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.