There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

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

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

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.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.