It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

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

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.