There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

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

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.