Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.