Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

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

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

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.