Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.